Applications of symbolic analysis in the design of analog circuits

The use of symbolic techniques in the realization of efficient automated tools for designing analog circuits is described in this chapter. In particular, three phases of the design cycle of an integrated circuit are considered: the simulation phase, the design centering phase, and the fault diagnosis phase. A biquadratic RC active filter was chosen in order to show the potency of several symbolic programs developed by the authors for particular use in these three phases of analog circuit design. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.