Analog Layout Synthesis

A Survey of Topological Approaches
2011
ISBN: 978-1-4899-7378-8
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 487 g

Integrated circuits are fundamental electronic components in biomedical, automotive and many other technical systems. A small, yet crucial part of a chip consists of analog circuitry. This part is still in large part designed by hand and therefore represents not only a bottleneck in the design flow, but also a permanent source of design errors responsible for re-designs, costly in terms of wasted test chips and in terms of lost time-to-market. Layout design is the step of the analog design flow with the least support by commercially available, computer-aided design tools.

This book provides a survey of promising new approaches to automated, analog layout design, which have been described recently and are rapidly being adopted in industry.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graeb, Helmut E.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Bauelemente, Schaltkreise
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Device-level topological placement with symmetry constraints.- Hierarchical placement with layout constraints.- Enhanced shape functions for deterministic analog placement.- Free-Shape Routing for Analog and RF circuits.- Closing the gap between electrical and physical design of analog circuits: the layout-aware solution.- Analog layout retargeting.- Template-driven analog layout automation.- Place and route of analog circuits.