Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: In application-specific designs, owing to the trade-off between power consumption and speed, the optimization of various circuit parameters has become a challenging task. Several of the performance metrics, viz. energy efficiency, gain, performance, and noise immunity, are interrelated and difficult to tune. Such efforts may result in a great deal of manual iterations which in turn increase the computational overhead. Thus it is important to develop a methodology that not only explores large design space but also reduces the computational time. In this work, we investigate the viability of using a SPICE and Python Integrated Development Environment (PIDE) interface to optimize integrated circuits. The SPICE simulations are carried out using 22 nm technology node with a nominal supply voltage of 0.8 V. The SPICE-PIDE optimizer, as delineated in this work, is able to provide the best solution sets considering various performance metrics and design complexities for five transistor level converters.
Source: IETE Journal of Research
Authors: Jehan Taraporewalla, K. P. Arun, Sugata Ghosh, Abhishek Agarwal, Bijaydoot Basak, Dipankar Saha
Language: English
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4405899053