Challenges and opportunities toward fully automated analog layout design  

作　　者：Hao Chen Mingjie Liu Xiyuan Tang Keren Zhu Nan Sun David Z.Pan 

机构地区：[1]Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,The University of Texas at Austin,Austin 78712,USA

出　　处：《Journal of Semiconductors》2020年第11期71-80,共10页半导体学报（英文版）

基　　金：supported in part by the NSF under Grant No.1704758,and the DARPA IDEA program.

摘　　要：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 advancements of digital IC layout automation,analog IC layout design is still heavily manual,which leads to a more time-consuming and error-prone process.In recent years,significant progress has been made in automated analog layout design with emerging of several open-source frameworks.This paper firstly reviews the existing state-of-the art AMS layout synthesis frameworks with focus on the different approaches and their individual challenges.We then present recent research trends and opportunities in the field.Finally,we summaries the paper with open questions and future directions for fully-automating the analog IC layout.

关 键 词：VLSI integrated circuit ASIC EDA analog ic design physical design 

分 类 号：TN402[电子电信—微电子学与固体电子学]