Symbolic Analysis Techniques for Fault Diagnosis and Automatic Design of Analog Circuits
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Francesco Grasso, Antonio Luchetta, Stefano Manetti, Maria Cristina Piccirilli and Alberto Reatti
Abstract
This chapter is concerned with symbolic analysis techniques for fault
diagnosis and automatic design of analog circuits. After a first paragraph describing a
software tool for the symbolic analysis developed by the authors, it details testability and
fault diagnosis of analog circuits and presents a symbolic approach to the design
centering problem. In addition, it highlights modeling of power electronic circuits based
on symbolic techniques.
Keywords:
Analog circuits, Circuit simulation, Symbolic Simulation CAD, Testability, Ambiguity
groups, Circuit faults, Electrical fault detection, Design centering, Design optimization, Yield
optimization, Acceptability region, DC-DC power converters, Power converter modeling
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy