ABSTRACT
As outlined in Chapter 1, an analog design automation system consists of three major feed-forward blocks and several smaller feedback blocks. The first major block is at the system level. As opposed to the other levels, system-level design automation is highly problem specific. This fact is revealed in the following sections, where several different systems will be studied. These systems are sampled-data analog filters, analog neural networks, and data converters. As discussed in the previous chapter, these systems are completely different from each other in nature. This difference reveals itself in the tools developed for system-level synthesis. However, the careful reader will observe that the design flow will converge to the same tools at the lower levels of the design process.
