1. A method of generating a design of an AMS circuit, comprising: formulating an optimization problem, said act of formulating comprising: defining at least one design objective; defining at least one constraint; and defining at least one constraint handling mechanism; and optimizing said optimization problem based at least in part on an evolutionary optimization methodology, said methodology comprising: providing a set of candidate solutions; evaluating at least a portion of said solutions based at least in part on said at least one objective and/or constraint; selecting at least one subset from said set; and utilizing at least a portion of said at least one subset to generate said design of said circuit.