(*)This work has been supported by the EU ESPRIT IST Project 2001-34283/TAMES-2 and the Spanish CICYT Project TIC2001-0929/ADAVERE. MATLAB/SIMULINK-Based High-Level Synthesis of Discrete-Time and

This paper describes a tool that combines an accurate SIMULINK-based time-domain behavioural simulator with a statistical optimizer for the automated high-level synthe-sis of 6 ' Modulators (6'Ms). The combination of high accuracy, short CPU time and interoperability of different circuit models together with the efficiency of the optimiza-tion engine makes the proposed tool an advantageous alter-native for 6'M synthesis. The implementation on the well-known MATLAB/SIMULINK platform brings numer-ous advantages in terms of data manipulation, flexibility and simulation with other electronic subsystems. Moreover, this is the first tool dealing with the synthesis of 6'Ms using both Discrete-Time (DT) and Continuous-Time (CT) circuit techniques(*). 1