Recent research development and new challenges in analog layout synthesis

MPH Lin, YW Chang, CM Hung - 2016 21st Asia and South …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Design for manufacturability and reliability in extreme-scaling VLSI

B Yu, X Xu, S Roy, Y Lin, J Ou, DZ Pan - Science China Information …, 2016 - Springer
In the last five decades, the number of transistors on a chip has increased exponentially in
accordance with the Moore's law, and the semiconductor industry has followed this law as …

Design of a 4.2-to-5.1 GHz ultralow-power complementary class-B/C hybrid-mode VCO in 65-nm CMOS fully supported by EDA tools

R Martins, N Lourenço, N Horta… - … on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimal voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) design for ultralow-power (ULP) radios has to
fulfill simultaneously multiple requirements such as frequency tuning range, phase noise …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum circuit design for objective function maximization in gate-model quantum computers

L Gyongyosi, S Imre - Quantum Information Processing, 2019 - Springer
Gate-model quantum computers provide an experimentally implementable architecture for
near-term quantum computations. To design a reduced quantum circuit that can simulate a …

Hierarchical analog and mixed-signal circuit placement considering system signal flow

K Zhu, H Chen, M Liu, DZ Pan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Placement is a critical step in layout automation for analog and mixed-signal (AMS)-
integrated circuits (ICs). It determines the proximity of devices and influences the wiring …

Electromigration-aware and IR-drop avoidance routing in analog multiport terminal structures

R Martins, N Lourenço, A Canelas… - … Design, Automation & …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes an electromigration-aware and IR-Drop avoidance routing approach
considering multiport multiterminal (MP/MT) signal nets of analog integrated circuits (IC) …

[HTML][HTML] Entanglement concentration service for the quantum Internet

L Gyongyosi, S Imre - Quantum Information Processing, 2020 - Springer
Here, we define the entanglement concentration service for the quantum Internet. The aim of
the entanglement concentration service is to provide reliable, high-quality entanglement for …

Electromigration-aware analog Router with multilayer multiport terminal structures

R Martins, N Lourenco, A Canelas, N Horta - Integration, 2014 - Elsevier
The combined effects of current densities and temperature in the interconnects may cause
the failure of a circuit due to electromigration (EM). EM becomes increasingly more relevant …

Electromigration-and parasitic-aware ILP-based analog router

M Torabi, L Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interconnect and via failures due to the electromigration (EM) effect have become
increasingly challenging in the advanced technology as a result of shrinking feature size …

Avoidance vs. repair: New approaches to increasing electromigration robustness in VLSI routing

S Bigalke, J Lienig - Integration, 2020 - Elsevier
Studies on further IC development mutually predict that the reliability of future integrated
circuits (ICs) will be severely endangered by the occurrence of electromigration (EM). The …