The Distinguished Lecture on “AI/ML Techniques Supporting the Design Automation of RF/mm-Wave Circuits: From the Device up to the System-Level” will take place as follows:
Date: 26 November 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 03:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Research Building N21, G013
The speaker is:
Prof. Fabio Moreira de Passos, Assistant Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
The Lecture is:
AI/ML Techniques Supporting the Design Automation of RF/mm-Wave Circuits: From the Device up to the System-Level
Abstract:
Traditional design methodologies for RF/mm-Wave ICs have long been characterized by an iterative process of trial and error, where designers rely heavily on experience and intuition to achieve functional circuits. This approach, while effective in many respects, is becoming increasingly inefficient in the context of the rapidly evolving demands of nowadays high-performance complex systems. In recent years, we have entered the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), and therefore its application to the design of RF/mm-Wave ICs is no exception. This workshop will demonstrate how innovative AI/ML techniques can be used to improve the automation in the design of RF/mm-Wave circuits and systems. The workshop will cover different design stages, from the device up to the system level design. Namely, it will be shown how ML techniques can be used to synthesize integrated inductors and transformers with optimal performances in milliseconds, how Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) can be used to estimate process variability much faster that e.g., Monte-Carlo methods, how can the layout of RF/mm-Wave circuits be automatically performed while improving e.g., routing parasitics, and how can evolutionary algorithms together with ML models efficiently explore the performance design space to achieve optimal circuit trade-offs. It will be shown how such AI/ML techniques can be used to efficiently automatize the design of RF/mm-Wave circuits/systems and circuit examples will be shown not only in academic but also in industrial context, with silicon proven automated designs. It will be shown that the design of RF/mm-Wave circuits can be performed in days rather than weeks/months if design automation is implemented in the design flow of RF/mm-Wave designers.
Biography:
Prof. Passos received the Ph.D. degree from the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, in 2018. Dr. Passos has performed research stays in several academic and industrial institutions such as IMEC and Analog Devices and worked in industry as an Analog Design Engineer in Renesas and SiliconGate. He was a recipient of several best paper awards, the EDA Competition Award from SMACD in 2016 and the Prestigious Outstanding Dissertation Award from the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA), in 2019. Currently, Dr. Passos is an Assistant Professor in Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon and an Integrated Researcher in the Nanoelectronic Circuits and Systems of INESC-ID. Dr. Passos is a member of the IEEE MTT Design Automation Technical Committee (TC-2) and IEEE CAS PECAS Technical Committee (Power and Energy Circuits and Systems). His current research interests include the design of Power Management Circuits, RF and mm-Wave Circuits and Design Automation.
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