MOJITO is a tool for analog circuit topology selection / topology design (synthesis).

• Inputs: a hierarchical library of analog building blocks (pre-specified), having >100K possible topologies
• Action: Searches ("synthesizes") possible topologies and sizings, with SPICE in the loop. Multi-objective, device operating constraints. Operating-point driven approach to sizing.
• Returns: a set of sized topologies that approximate a performance tradeoff curve.

Once just one MOJITO run is done at a process node, the results are stored as a db for future queries by other designers. Therefore MOJITO supports a "specs-in sized-topology-out" workflow with immediate turnaround.

There are two main versions of MOJITO. This is the basic, simplest, and most stable version. The other version is faster ("TAPAS" extension), variation-aware ("R" extension), and has a bigger topology library; it's at: https://github.com/trentmc/mojito_r_tapas

BOOK: T. McConaghy, P. Palmers, P. Gao, M. Steyaert, and G.G.E. Gielen. Variation-Aware Analog Structural Synthesis: A Computational Intelligence Approach. Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-9048129058. http://www.amazon.com/Variation-Aware-Analog-Structural-Synthesis-Computational/dp/9048129052

TEVC PAPER: T. McConaghy, P. Palmers, M. Steyaert, and G.G.E. Gielen, Trustworthy genetic programming-based synthesis of analog circuit topologies using hierarchical domain-specific building blocks, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 15(4), Aug. 2011, pp. 557-570. http://trent.st/content/2011-TEVC-mojito-ea.pdf

MORE INFO: http://trent.st/publications/

MOJITO was written by:

• Trent McConaghy, Solido Design Automation Inc. [email protected]
• Pieter Palmers

The original MOJITO code was written during the Trent's and Pieter's PhD studies at ESAT-MICAS, KU Leuven, Belgium, between 2005 and 2008.

• To get started: ./help.py
• You know your version is working if all the unit tests pass: ./runtests.py

The original code was only integrated (well, hacked) into hspice, for a specific process. It has not been tested recently. It will likely take a bit of hacking to work with your simulator and model files anyway. (Priority: integrate into ngspice.)

MOJITO had several extensions, listed below. If you would like code related to one of these extensions, please contact Trent.

• MOJITO-R -- process variation aware, i.e. yield as an additional objective. Reference: T. McConaghy, P. Palmers, G.G.E. Gielen, and M. Steyaert, Variation-aware structural synthesis of analog circuits via hierarchical building blocks and structural homotopy, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design 28(9), Sept. 2009, pp. 1281-1294. http://trent.st/content/2009-TCAD-robust_mojito.pdf
• MOJITO-N -- novelty exploration. Reference: T. McConaghy, P. Palmers, G.G.E. Gielen, and M. Steyaert, Genetic programming with reuse of known designs, in Genetic Programming Theory and Practice V, Edited by R. Riolo and B. Worzel, Chapter 10, Springer, 2007. http://trent.st/content/2007-GPTP-novelty_mojito.pdf
• ISCLES -- stacking many tiny circuits to learn new input-output mappings (e.g. V-V or flash ADCs). Reference: P. Gao, T. McConaghy, and G.G.E. Gielen, ISCLEs: Importance sampled circuit learning ensembles for robust analog IC design, in Proc. Intern. Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Jose, November 2008. [PDF]
• TAPAS -- speed up basic MOJITO using a MOEA/D variant. Reference: P. Palmers, T. McConaghy, M. Steyaert, and G.G.E. Gielen, Massively multi-topology sizing of analog integrated circuits, in Proc. Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), March 2009. http://trent.st/content/2009_DATE_mojito_tapas.pdf