Due to the increasing size of integrated circuits (ICs), their design and optimization phases
(ie, computer-aided design, CAD) grow increasingly complex. At design time, a large design …

This paper presents an overview of common-centroid (CC) layout styles, used in analog
designs to overcome the impact of systematic variations. CC layouts must be carefully …

This paper introduces VeriGOOD-ML, an automated methodology for generating Verilog
with no human in the loop, starting from a high-level description of a machine learning (ML) …

The operational amplifier is a key building block in analog systems. However, the design
process of the operational amplifier is time consuming and heavily depends on engineers' …

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

Analog designs consist of multiple hierarchical functional blocks. Each block can be built
using one of several design topologies, where the choice of topology is based on circuit …

Today's analog and mixed-signal (AMS) layout flow requires long manual iterations and
does not leverage computing resources for data-driven optimization. This issue is further …

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 …

Analog layout design heavily involves interactive processes between humans and design
tools. The tools are usually designed to use scripting commands or visualized buttons for …

We propose a complete analog mixed-signal circuit design flow from specification to silicon
with minimum human-in-the-loop interaction, and verify the flow in a 12nm FinFET CMOS …