Affiliation:
1. Innovation Center for Electronic Design Automation Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China
Abstract
Stochastic optimization approaches benefit from random variance to produce a solution in a reasonable time frame that is good enough for solving the problem. Compared with them, deterministic optimization methods feature faster convergence rates and better reproducibility but may get stuck at a local optimum that is insufficient to solve the problem. In this paper, we propose a group-based deterministic optimization method, which can efficiently achieve comparable performance to heuristic optimization algorithms, such as particle swarm optimization. Moreover, the weighted sum method (WSM) is employed to further improve our deterministic optimization method to be multi-objective optimization, making it able to seek a balance among multiple conflicting circuit performance metrics. With a case study of three common analog circuits tested for our optimization methodology, the experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method can more efficiently reach a better estimation of the Pareto front compared to NSGA-II, a well-known multi-objective optimization approach.
Funder
Postdoctoral Research Project Preferential Funding of Zhejiang Province, China
National Natural Science Foundation of China
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