The level of automation applied to analog design has never approached the level enjoyed by digital designers. For years designers have iterated through schematic entry, physical layout, parasitic ...

The chips for the Internet of Things (IoT) are made from many functional units: digital logic, CPU, battery management, ROM, RAM, and analog blocks such as DAC, ADC and amplifiers. The IoT chips, such ...

Meeting high-performance requirements at low power isn’t easy. What is already challenging in digital is even more complex in analog. After specification and block-level system concept, the analog ...

Glayout is a powerful layout automation tool that generates DRC-clean circuit layouts for any technology implementing the Glayout framework. It is implemented as an easy-to-install Python package with ...

Analog integrated circuits (ICs) are used to control and regulate conditions such as temperature, speed, sound, and electrical current. In analog ICs, voltage and current vary continuously at ...

Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) have developed an artificial intelligence approach that addresses a key bottleneck in analog semiconductor layout design, a process ...

Abstract: The layout of analog blocks has for a long time been a critical aspect to achieving the theoretical performance of a circuit. Perhaps more importantly, when the layout fails to match the ...