Computer Methods for Circuit Analysis and Design
Computer Methods for Circuit Analysis and Design
Cover story: the amazing vanishing transistor act
IEEE Spectrum - The amazing vanishing transistor act
A layout-aware synthesis methodology for RF circuits
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
A Layout Approach for Electrical and Physical Design Integration of High-Performance Analog Circuits
ISQED '00 Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design
Automated design of operational transconductance amplifiers using reversed geometric programming
Proceedings of the 41st annual Design Automation Conference
Performance-driven circuit and layout co-optimization for deep-submicron analog circuits
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
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Successful deep-submicron designs require significant computation resources for thorough signal and design integrity analysis. Rising quality expectations and shortening time-to-market requirements present additional challenges for design closure. Conventional analog circuit optimizers are efficient in circuit analysis and optimization. Due to recent promising results, designers begin to adopt automated physical synthesis in their condensed development cycles in order to improve their prototyping efficiency. For high-performance circuits optimization, idealized performance as well as parasitic data should also be considered. This paper presents an effective framework to incorporate parasitic effects into a sensitivity-based circuit optimization tool. To relieve the physical synthesis bottleneck, estimations of parasitic values based on past extraction results are made during incremental design changes. Sensitivities of the performance impact can then be computed efficiently. As a result physical performance can be optimized using available optimizer and synthesis tools without the need of a priori expert rules, knowledge or cell libraries.