While the development of digital circuits is currently supported by a plethora of EDA tools, the development of analog and mixed–signal (AMS) circuits has lagged behind, remaining essentially an ad–hoc and artistic activity, not facilitating re–use and not easily integrated in a system–level development process. Some of the reasons for this situation are inherent in the technical differences between digital and analog computation while others are due to sociological reasons in the respective communities such as the fact that the cultural distance between the EDA software developers and analog designers is much larger than their distance to digital designers. <P>With the advent of embedded systems–on–chip, this state of affairs puts the development of analog sub–systems (necessary for all interactions with the physical world) in the critical path of new product development and the semi–conductor industry now realizes that it needs more advanced CAD tools for simulation, verification, test, design–space exploration, model reduction, synthesis and integration with digital sub–systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together analog designers, EDA tool providers and researchers from the relevant disciplines (verification, simulation, control) to advance the state–of–the–art of AMS synthesis and verification. </P>
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