Semi-automated analog placement

Eric Lao (1) , Marie-Minerve Louërat (1) , Jean-Paul Chaput (2)

1 CIAN - Circuits Intégrés Numériques et Analogiques
2 LIP6 - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6

Analog design remains a manual task because of the complexity of the interactions among devices. Automation tools dedicated to analog circuits are not as mature as the digital automation ones, but have been improved a lot at a point that they can help at individual steps in the analog design flow. Our approach is to propose a semi-automated analog placement controlled by the designer, following an organization in row similar to a digital circuit structure. The results show the ability of our tool at generating multiple layouts respecting designer's constraints.

Domaines: Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Electronique

Eric Lao, Marie-Minerve Louërat, Jean-Paul Chaput. Semi-automated analog placement. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Dec 2016, Monte Carlo, Monaco. pp.432 - 433, ⟨10.1109/ICECS.2016.7841227⟩. ⟨hal-01484414⟩