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 …

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 …

In back-end analog/mixed-signal (AMS) design flow, well generation persists as a
fundamental challenge for layout compactness, routing complexity, circuit performance and …

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 …

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 …

The layouts of analog/mixed-signal (AMS) integrated circuits (ICs) are dramatically different
from their digital counterparts. AMS circuit layouts usually include a variety of devices …

Conventional analog/mixed-signal (AMS) circuits design methodology relying heavily on the
use of operational amplifiers (opamps) to process signals in voltage-domain (VD) …