الفهرس 
BEHA VIORAL MODELING IN MIXED-SIGNAL DESIGNOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Complex systems today are becoming more and more mixed-signal, with the analog part
being the design and verification bottle neck. Traditionally, the virtual verification for the
analog part of the design was only available through transistor-level SPICE simulation.
Lately, behavioral modeling has been proved to be the right methodology to cope with
today’s design and verification demands.
Some behavioral models of complex systems consume a lot of time during simulation
due to reasons such as high switching rates or many operating frequencies. An example
of such circuits is the family of switched-capacitor DC-DC converters, also known as
charge pumps.
Our target is to study the different behavioral modeling techniques which, when
deployed, enable the speed up of the simulation time of such circuits, while preserving
accuracy. In this thesis we will also present an average modeling technique that
concentrates on the information bearing signal of low frequency, instead of the detailed
transient higher frequency signal, thereby greatly relaxing the simulation time-step, and
gaining the same information in a shorter time. A real-life design is used to verify the
presented methodology.