Analog IC placement is typically a manual process that requires strong experience and trial-
and-error iterations as it produces a large impact to circuit performance in a complicated …

Realizing the layouts of analog/mixed-signal (AMS) integrated circuits (ICs) is a complicated
task due to the high design flexibility and sensitive circuit performance. Compared with the …

Optimizing circuit performance presents a pivotal challenge in the realm of automatic analog
physical design. The intricacy of analog performance arises from its sensitivity to layout …

Despite tremendous advancement of digital IC design automation tools over the last few
decades, analog IC layout is still heavily manual which is very tedious and error-prone. This …

Due to sensitive layout-dependent effects and varied performance metrics, analog routing
automation for performance-driven layout synthesis is difficult to generalize. Existing …

Placement is among the most critical steps in analog/mixed-signal (AMS) circuit layout
synthesis. It implicitly determines the wiring topology and therefore has considerable …

Analog IC layout is usually a time-consuming manual design process. Although automated
analog IC layout has been studied for decades, most of the previous works are focused on …

This article presents an automatic layout generation framework in advanced CMOS
technologies. The framework extends the template-and-grid-based layout generation …

Analog layout design heavily involves interactive processes between humans and design
tools. Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools for this task are usually designed to use …

Analytical techniques have long been a prevailing approach to digital IC placement due to
their advantage in handling large-sized problems. Recently, they have been adopted for …