System and method of optimal waveform shaping

摘要

Component values and/or sizes in an electrical circuit are optimized with waveform shaping considerations in addition to other constraints and/or objective functions such as delay, power, gain, area or rise/fall times. A consistent metric is defined as a quality measure of waveform match. Gradients of these metrics are computed by efficient methods, thus enabling mathematical optimization by a numerical optimizer. Two different useful metrics and the corresponding efficient gradient computation techniques are described.