DESIGN METHODOLOGIES

Due to the difficulty in the design of analog IC's (number of design variables) and their dependence to external factors (process, technology) it is essential the development of new design methodologies which embrace the trade-off between certain specifications of the circuit and their relationship with the design variables (size of transistors). This methodologies should approach as much as possible to the automated and optimization in the design. Application of Geommetric Programming in the Design and Optimization of Integrated Operational Amplifiers. Taking advantage of the benefit that offers the convex optimization and the advances in the algorithms solution of such problems, the problem of the analog design adapts to be resolved as a problem of geometric programming. In the validation of this results it is designed three amplifiers operational type folded cascode, telescopic and complementary pair.