John Bandler's Technical Achievement Milestones
The following documents John Bandler's scientific, engineering and commercial achievements,
in collaboration with academic and professional colleagues and co-workers to
2010.
1960's and 1970's
1980's
1990's
2000's
2010-
- computerized Smith chart plots (1966)
- performance-driven optimization (1968)
- optimization of waveguide circuits (1969)
- adjoint sensitivities for microwave circuits (1970)
- cost-driven worst-case design with optimized tolerances (1972)
- centering, tolerance assignment integrated with tuning at the design stage (1974)
- integrated approach to microwave design with tolerances and uncertainties (1975)
- yield-driven optimization for general statistical distributions (1976)
- new results for cascaded circuits (1978)
- optimal tuning and alignment at the production stage (1980)
- fault diagnosis and parameter extraction (1980)
Bandler founds Optimization Systems Associates (OSA) (1983)
- waveguide multiplexer minimax optimization system embodying exact adjoint
sensitivites (1984)
- introduction of powerful minimax optimizers into commercial CAD/CAE products such as
EEsof's Touchstone (1985)
- large-scale microwave optimization (1986)
- foundation of multi-circuit L1 modeling (1986)
- world's first yield-driven design for Compact Software's Super-Compact (1987)
- enhancements to commercial CAD/CAE products including Compact Software's Microwave
Harmonica (1988)
- parameter extraction using novel large-scale concepts (1988)
- nonlinear adjoint (harmonic balance) exact sensitivities (1988)
- OSA's RoMPE, world's first commercial product for FET parameter extraction featuring
S-parameters and/or DC data (1988)
- yield-driven design of nonlinear microwave circuits (1989)
- FAST, novel technique for high-speed nonlinear sensitivities (1989)
- efficient large-signal FET parameter extraction using harmonics (1989)
- OSA's HarPE, world's first commercial product for harmonic balance driven FET parameter
extraction (1989)
- combined discrete/normal statistical modeling of active devices (1989)
- efficient quadratic approximation for statistical design (1989)
- nonlinear circuit optimization with dynamically integrated physical device models (1990)
- analytically unified DC/small-signal/large-signal circuit design (1990)
- OSA's OSA90, world's first friendly optimization engine for performance- and
yield-driven design (1990)
- OSA's Datapipe Technology, OSA90's interprocess communication system (1990)
- OSA's OSA90/hope, the microwave and RF harmonic optimization system (1991)
- design optimization with external simulators, circuit-theoretic and field-theoretic
(1991)
- statistical modeling of GaAs MESFETs (1991)
- gradient quadratic approximation for yield optimization (1991)
- physics-based design and yield optimization of MMICs (1991)
- OSA's Spicepipe connection of OSA90/hope with Zuberek's SPICE-PAC simulator (1992)
OSA's Empipe connection of OSA90/hope with Sonnet Software's em field
simulator (1992)
- predictable yield-driven circuit optimization (1992)
- integrated physics-oriented statistical modeling, simulation and optimization (1992)
- "fulfils the requirement of microwave engineers to model and simulate nonlinear
active and passive systems without having a thorough knowledge of analysis, and
optimization methods" - Microwave Engineering Europe (1992)
- Datapipe connection of OSA90/hope with Hoefer's TLM electromagnetic field simulators
(1993)
- Datapipe connection of OSA90/hope with Nakhla/Zhang VLSI interconnect simulators (1993)
- microstrip filter design using direct EM field simulation (1993)
- yield-driven direct electromagnetic optimization (1993)
- robustizing modeling and design using Huber functions (1993)
- "CAD review: Non-linear CAD benchmark" by Microwave Engineering Europe
(1993)
- EM design of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) microwave filters (1994)
- CDF approach to statistical modeling (1994)
-
Space Mapping - a fundamental new theory for design with CPU intensive simulators
(1994)
- "CAD review: the 7 GHz doubler circuit" by Microwave Engineering Europe
(1994)
- optimization of planar structures with arbitrary geometry (1994)
OSA's breakthrough Geometry Capture technique (1995):
now used by Agilent EEsof EDA
- OSA's Aggressive Space Mapping for EM design (1995)
- cost-driven physics-based large-signal simultaneous device and circuit design (1995)
- integrated harmonic balance and EM optimization (1995)
- novel heterogeneous parallel yield-driven EM CAD (1995)
- mixed-domain multi-simulator statistical parameter extraction and yield-driven design
(1995)
- IEEE IMS workshop on Automated Circuit Design Using Electromagnetic Simulators
(Arndt, Bandler, Chen, Hoefer, Jain, Jansen, Pavio, Pucel, Sorrentino, Swanson, 1995)
- explosion of development and use of optimization-based technology for automated circuit
design with EM simulators (1994, 1995)
- Network Datapipe connection of OSA90/hope with Hoefer's TLM electromagnetic field
simulators on massively parallel computers (1995)
- Datapipe connections of OSA90/hope with Sorrentino's mode-matching electromagnetic field
simulators with adjoint sensitivities (1995)
- Datapipe connection of OSA90/hope with Arndt's waveguide component library (1995)
- parameterization of arbitrary geometrical structures (1996)
- fully-automated Space Mapping optimization of 3D structures (1996)
OSA's Empipe3D connection of OSA90/hope with Hewlett-Packard's HFSS and Ansoft's Maxwell
Eminence full-wave 3D simulators (1996)
- OSA creates EmpipeExpress and empath for connection to Sonnet Software's em
field simulator (1996)
- Space Mapping optimization with finite element (FEM) and mode matching (MM) EM
simulators (1997)
-
Hewlett-Packard acquires OSA, expanding HP's CAE portfolio (1997)
Bandler founds Bandler Corporation (1997)
- integration of OSA's Empipe3D with HP HFSS by HP EEsof launches HFSS
Optimization (1998)
-
HP EEsof builds OSA technology into HP Momentum initiating Momentum
Optimization (1998)
- Trust Region Aggressive Space Mapping (TRASM) for EM design (1998)
- Zhang and Bandler strengthen joint research (1998)
- Multiple Space Mapping optimization of signal integrity (1998)
- Artificial Neural Networks vs. Space Mapping for device modeling (1998)
- Hybrid Aggressive Space Mapping (HASM) optimization algorithm (1999)
- novel Aggressive Parameter Extraction (APE) algorithm (1999)
- modeling of microwave circuits exploiting Space Derivative Mapping (SDM) (1999)
- breakthrough Neuro Space Mapping (NSM) approach to device modeling (1999)
- implementation of Neuro Space Mapping technology into Zhangs Neuromodeler (1999)
- Generalized Space Mapping (GSM) tableau approach to device modeling (1999)
-
research
begins on Surrogate Model/Space Mapping optimization algorithms (1999)
- Neural Space Mapping optimization for EM-based design (2000)
- Space Mapping Optimization exploiting surrogates (2000)
-
First International Workshop on Surrogate Modelling and Space Mapping for
Engineering Optimization (2000)
- Neural Inverse Space Mapping (NISM) EM optimization (2001)
- Expanded Space Mapping Design Framework (ESMDF) exploiting preassigned
parameters (2001)
- SMX—A novel object-oriented engineering optimization system (2001)
- broadband physics-based modeling of microwave passive devices through
frequency mapping (2001)
- yield driven EM optimization using Space Mapping-based neuromodels (2001)
- Space Mapping crashworthiness design of Saab 9.3 (Linköping University,
2001)
- EM-based optimization exploiting Partial Space Mapping (PSM) and exact sensitivities
(2002)
- Implicit Space Mapping (ISM) EM-based modeling and design exploiting
preassigned parameters (2002)
- introduction of Space Mapping to mathematicians (2002)
- Special Issue of Optimization and Engineering on Surrogate Modelling
and Space Mapping for Engineering Optimization (2002)
- adjoint variable method for design sensitivity analysis with the method of moments (2002)
- Space Mapping optimization exploiting adjoint sensitivities (2002)
- CAD of RF and microwave circuits and systems, invited
paper (2002)
- Feasible Adjoint Sensitivity Technique (FAST) for EM design optimization
(2002)
- FAST technique for EM design exploiting the Broyden update
(2003)
- EM-based surrogate modeling and design exploiting implicit, frequency and output
Space Mappings (2003)
- Space Mapping: engineering modeling and optimization exploiting surrogates,
ISMP, (2003)
- Space Mapping design of dielectric resonator multiplexers
(Com Dev, Canada, 2003)
- Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Microwave
Theory and Techniques on EM-based Optimization of Microwave Components
and Circuits (2004)
-
Space Mapping: the state of the art, review paper, (2004)
-
adjoint techniques for sensitivity analysis in high-frequency structure
CAD, review paper, (2004)
-
response sensitivity analysis with frequency-domain full-wave electromagnetic solvers
(2004)
-
a Space Mapping design framework (2004)
-
Space Mapping interpolating surrogates for highly optimized EM-based design of microwave devices
(2004)
-
accelerated gradient based optimization using adjoint sensitivities
(2004)
Implicit Space Mapping
design of thick, tightly coupled conductors (Sonnet Software, 2004)
- Space Mapping crashworthiness design of Saab 9.5 (Linköping University,
2005)
- Space Mapping: A Knowledge Based Engineering Modeling and Optimization Methodology Exploiting Surrogates,
two minisymposia, Eighth SIAM Conference on Optimization (2005)
- towards a rigorous formulation of the Space Mapping technique for
engineering (2005)
- on the convergence of Space Mapping optimization algorithms (2005)
- enhanced surrogate models exploiting Space Mapping technology for statistical design and modeling (2005)
- TLM modeling and design exploiting Space Mapping (2005)
- the world's first friendly system for engineering modeling,
optimization and statistical analysis based on Space Mapping (2005)
Second
International Workshop on Surrogate Modelling and Space Mapping for Engineering Optimization SMSMEO-06 (2006)
- Sensitivity analysis with electromagnetic
frequency-domain simulators, including FEKO (2006)
- Space mapping for engineering optimization, SIAG/Optimization
Views-and-News Special Issue on Derivative-free and Surrogate Optimization
(2006)
- Optimization of spiral inductor on silicon using space mapping (2006)
- Space mapping optimization algorithms for engineering design (2006)
- Antenna design through space mapping optimization (2006)
- An automated space mapping framework (2006)
- MEFiSTo-based design exploiting space mapping (2006)
- An implicit space mapping technique for component modeling (2006)
- Space-mapping-based interpolation (2006)
- A space mapping framework for engineering optimization—theory and
implementation (2006)
- Adjoint higher order sensitivities for full-wave optimization of microwave
filters (2006)
- SMF—a software package for user-friendly space mapping optimization (2006)
- Space-mapping-based modeling utilizing a database and on-demand parameter
extraction (2006)
- Space mapping optimization with adaptive surrogate model (2007)
- Antenna optimization through space mapping (2007)
- Neuro-space mapping for microwave design (2007)
- Device modeling using space-mapping and radial basis functions (2007)
- Controlling convergence of space-mapping algorithms (2007)
- Interpolated coarse models for microwave design optimization with space
mapping (2007)
- Space-mapping approach to modeling exploiting fuzzy systems (2007)
- Space mapping with multiple coarse models for optimization of microwave
components (2008)
- Space mapping optimization of microwave structures with FEKO (2008)
- A space mapping methodology for defect characterization (2008)
- Support-vector-regression-based output space-mapping for microwave device
modeling (2008)
- Tuning space mapping: a novel technique for engineering design optimization
(2008)
- Optimization and Engineering, Special Issue on Surrogate Modeling and
Space Mapping for Engineering Optimization (2008)
- Quality assessment of coarse models and surrogates for space mapping
optimization (2008)
- Space mapping optimization and modeling of microwave devices with MEFiSTo
(2008)
- Space mapping with adaptive response correction for microwave design
optimization (2009)
- Accelerated microwave design optimization with tuning space mapping (2009)
- Implicit space mapping with adaptive selection of preassigned parameters
(2009)
- Automated tuning space mapping (2009)
- Trust-region-based convergence safeguards for space mapping design (2009)
- Tuning space mapping optimization exploiting embedded surrogate elements
(2009)
- Multi-fidelity space mapping modeling of microwave devices with double
coarse model processing and functional approximation (2009)
- Distributed fine model evaluation for rapid space-mapping optimisation
(2009)
- Space mapping design framework exploiting tuning elements (2010)
- Implicit space mapping with adaptive selection of preassigned parameters
(2010)
- Response corrected tuning space mapping for yield estimation and design
centering (2010)
- Adaptively constrained parameter extraction for robust space mapping
optimization (2010)
- Co-simulation based tuning space mapping with FEKO (2010)\
- Accurate modeling of microwave devices using space mapping and kriging
(2010)
- Quick space mapping with variable weight coefficients (2010)
- Progress in simulator-based tuning—the art of tuning space mapping (2010)
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