This book introduces readers to a variety of tools for analog layout design automation. After discussing the placement and routing problem in electronic design automation (EDA), the authors overview a variety of automatic layout generation tools, as well as the most recent advances in analog layout-aware circuit sizing.
Ricardo Martins is a Ph.D candidate in the Integrated Circuits group, within the Instituto de Telecomunicações in Lisbon, Portugal.Nuno Lourenço is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Integrated Circuits group, within the Instituto de Telecomunicações in Lisbon, Portugal.Nuno Horta is Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher in the Integrated Circuits group, within the Instituto de Telecomunicações in Lisbon, Portugal.
1 Introduction.- 2 State-of-the-Art on Analog Layout Automation.- 3 AIDA-L: Architecture and Integration.- 4 Template-based Placer.- 5 Optimization-based Placer.- 6 Fully-Automatic Router.- 7 Empirical-based Parasitic Extractor.- 8 Experimental Results.- 9 Conclusions and Future Work.