The layout of analog blocks has for a long time been a critical aspect to achieving the theoretical performance of a circuit. Perhaps more importantly, when the layout fails to match the design, the ...

ALIGN is an open-source automatic layout generator for analog circuits jointly developed under the DARPA IDEA program by the University of Minnesota, Texas A&M University, and Intel Corporation. The ...

FALCON (Fully Automated Layout-Constrained analOg circuit desigN) is a unified machine learning framework for end-to-end analog and RF circuit synthesis. Given a target performance specification, ...

The first is a general reluctance of analog layout engineers to approve layout generated by automated tools. When talking with layout people, even within the same company, different views are ...

Despite all the research efforts, some areas of IC design are still mainly manual, such as analog layouts. With the proliferation of systems on a chip (SoCs), the lack of efficient methods to generate ...

In analog layout design, precise layout matching techniques are crucial to ensure the accuracy and performance of the circuit so that transistors exhibit similar electrical properties (i.e.

On the tension between creative, precise high-end layouts and firmly established tapeout deadlines.

A new version of the analog IP design migration tool suite ensures that a migrated layout maintains the existing floorplan. Thalia Design Automation uses a custom AI design transformer engine for ...