Synthesis tools for mixed-signal ICs: progress on frontend and backend strategies
DAC '96 Proceedings of the 33rd annual Design Automation Conference
Efficient analog circuit synthesis with simultaneous yield and robustness optimization
Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Mathematics of Operations Research
Optimization of inductor circuits via geometric programming
Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
Remembrance of circuits past: macromodeling by data mining in large analog design spaces
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
Robust Solutions to Uncertain Semidefinite Programs
SIAM Journal on Optimization
Exploring regular fabrics to optimize the performance-cost trade-off
Proceedings of the 40th annual Design Automation Conference
Design for Variability in DSM Technologies
ISQED '00 Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design
Convex Optimization
Generalized Posynomial Performance Modeling
DATE '03 Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 1
Geometric programming for circuit optimization
Proceedings of the 2005 international symposium on Physical design
Robust gate sizing by geometric programming
Proceedings of the 42nd annual Design Automation Conference
Analog Design Centering and Sizing
Analog Design Centering and Sizing
Efficient handling of operating range and manufacturing line variations in analog cell synthesis
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Optimal design of a CMOS op-amp via geometric programming
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
AMGIE-A synthesis environment for CMOS analog integrated circuits
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Robust Analog/RF Circuit Design With Projection-Based Performance Modeling
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Worst-case analysis and optimization of VLSI circuit performances
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Robust solutions of uncertain linear programs
Operations Research Letters
Convex piecewise-linear modeling method for circuit optimization via geometric programming
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Simulation-based analog and RF circuit synthesis using a modified evolutionary strategies algorithm
Integration, the VLSI Journal
A new uncertainty budgeting based method for robust analog/mixed-signal design
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Design Automation Conference
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
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Long design cycles due to the inability to predict silicon realities are a well-known problem that plagues analog/RF integrated circuit product development. As this problem worsens for nanoscale IC technologies, the high cost of design and multiple manufacturing spins causes fewer products to have the volume required to support full-custom implementation. Design reuse and analog synthesis make analog/RF design more affordable; however, the increasing process variability and lack of modeling accuracy remain extremely challenging for nanoscale analog/RF design. We propose a regular analog/RF IC using metal-mask configurability design methodology Optimization with Recourse of Analog Circuits including Layout Extraction (ORACLE), which is a combination of reuse and shared-use by formulating the synthesis problem as an optimization with recourse problem. Using a two-stage geometric programming with recourse approach, ORACLE solves for both the globally optimal shared and application-specific variables. Furthermore, robust optimization is proposed to treat the design with variability problem, further enhancing the ORACLE methodology by providing yield bound for each configuration of regular designs. The statistical variations of the process parameters are captured by a confidence ellipsoid. We demonstrate ORACLE for regular Low Noise Amplifier designs using metal-mask configurability, where a range of applications share common underlying structure and application-specific customization is performed using the metal-mask layers. Two RF oscillator design examples are shown to achieve robust designs with guaranteed yield bound.