Advanced Techniques for Optimal Sizing of Analog Integrated Circuits

A novel and authoritative approach to quantum machine learning in integrated circuits design optimization

In Advanced Techniques for Optimal Sizing of Analog Integrated Circuits, a team of distinguished researchers deliver a comprehensive discussion of the theory, models, methodologies, practical implementation, and utilization of integrated circuit (IC) design. The authors explain IC design optimization, demonstrating cost-effective and time-saving design approaches, as well as techniques likely to be impactful in the near future.

The book covers major topics in the field, describing key concepts, recent advances, effective algorithms, and pressing challenges associated with analog circuit sizing optimization. It discusses using both animal and human-inspired optimization algorithms to create basic and quantum machine learning methods.

Readers will also find:

• A novel approach to quantum machine learning in integrated circuit design optimization
• A range of introductory and advanced topics suitable for students, advanced professionals, and researchers
• Detailed illustrations that clarify abstract, complicated engineering concepts
• Complete treatments of animal behavior-inspired optimization algorithms, including particle swarm optimization, firefly algorithm, cuckoo search, and bat algorithm

Perfect for researchers in engineering, computer scientists, professors, and senior undergraduate and graduate students in integrated circuit design, this book will also benefit students of machine learning, computer science, quantum computing, and optimization.

Trang Hoang is an Associate Professor at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Thinh Quang Do is a Research Assistant and a PhD student at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

Thang Quoc Nguyen is a Research Assistant and a PhD student at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

Hoang Trong Nguyen is a Research Assistant and a Master student at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

Lihong Zhang is a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

Octavia A. Dobre is a Professor and the Tier-1 Canada Research Chair at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

Trung Q. Duong is the Canada Excellence Research Chair and a Full Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Queen’s University Belfast, UK and a Visiting Professor at Kyung Hee University, South Korea.