Analog Layout Synthesis: A Survey of Topological Approaches

  • Authors:
  • Helmut E. Graeb

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Analog Layout Synthesis: A Survey of Topological Approaches
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

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.