Fast Analysis of Analog Design Trade-offs via Geometric Programming

Abstract-This paper concerns a method for solving a variety of analog design trade-off problems, which is based on formulating the problem as a geometric program (GP). These nonlinear, constrained optimization problem can be transformed to convex optimization problems, and then solved (globally) very efficiently. Designers can analyze quantitatively trade-offs among different specifications as well as construct trade-off curves very quickly owing to the efficiency of the method. I