238 Pages 88 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    The explosive growth and development of the integrated circuit market over the last few years have been mostly limited to the digital VLSI domain. The difficulty of automating the design process in the analog domain, the fact that a general analog design methodology remained undefined, and the poor performance of earlier tools have left the analog world with few, if any, options for automated VLSI design.

    Analog VLSI Design Automation may well mark the dawn of a new era. It describes a fully integrated, top-down approach to analog VLSI design automation and presents a methodology for each level of the design hierarchy. The authors define an analog VLSI design automation flow in which every tool has its predefined objectives and interfaces. They present working examples for each tool, and demonstrate the validity of their approach by running their design automation system from the top to the bottom levels in three different case studies.

    Technologies like systems-on-a-chip (SOCs) have created a pressing need for automated design tools capable of handling analog circuit blocks. The ideas presented in this book are fully adaptable to various design classes. Using these ideas, you will be able to develop new methodologies and algorithms that will significantly reduce design costs and time to market for many practical systems.

    ANALOG VLSI DESIGN AUTOMATION
    Introduction
    Previous Analog Design Flows
    Proposed Design Flow and Tools
    Design Examples
    SYSTEM-LEVEL DESIGN AUTOMATION
    Introduction
    Performance Estimation
    Macromodeling
    High Level Synthesis of Switched Capacitor Filters
    High Level Synthesis of Analog Neural Networks
    High Level Synthesis of A/D Converters
    CIRCUIT LEVEL SYNTHESIS
    Introduction
    Evolution-Based Automatic Synthesis Strategy
    Evolution-Based Analog IC Optimization
    DC Simulator
    Performance Modeling
    Incorporation of transistor mismatches
    Synthesis Examples and Discussion of Results
    Concluding Remarks
    LAYOUT-LEVEL DESIGN AUTOMATION
    Introduction
    Device Generation
    Partitioning and Floorplanning
    Placement
    Routing
    Post Layout Improvements
    Performance Issues in Analog Layout Generation
    Conclusions and Future Directions
    DESIGN AUTOMATION CASE STUDIES
    Introduction
    SC Filter Design Example
    Neural Network Design Example
    A/D Converter Design Example
    CONCLUSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
    APPENDIX: CMOS Spice Models

    Biography

    Sina Balkir, Günhan Dündar, A. Selçuk Ögrenci