Routing techniques for analog and radio-frequency (A/RF) integrated circuit (IC) design
automation have been proposed in the literature for over three decades. On those, an …

Analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits play an important role in many modern
emerging system-on-chip (SoC) design applications. With the expansion of the markets of …

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 …

While digital integrated circuits (ICs) has adopted highly automated computer aided design
(CAD) tools for decades including synthesis, placement, and routing, analog, and mixed …

Symmetry, topology-matching, and length-matching constraints are three major routing
considerations to improve the performance of an analog circuit. Symmetry constraints are …

As clock frequencies increase, topology-matching bus routing is desired to provide an initial
routing result which facilitates the following buffer insertion to meet the timing constraints …

FinFETs have emerged as alternatives to conventional bulk MOSFETs in scaled
technologies due to superior gate control of the channel, lower short channel effects and …

Analog layout generation in the advanced CMOS design is challenging by its increasing
layout constraints and performance requirements. This situation becomes more intricate by …

In this paper, we present a novel configurable analog routing methodology for more efficient
analog layout automation. By the help of OpenAccess constraint group format, the …

The routing of analog integrated circuits (IC) has long been a challenge due to numerous
constraints (such as symmetry and topology-matching) that matter for overall circuit …