Title :
Design Automation for Analog: The Next Generation of Tool Challenges
Author :
Rutenbar, Rob A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
Abstract :
The decade of the 1990s saw the first wave of practical "post-SPICE" tools for analog designs. A range of synthesis, optimization, layout and modeling techniques made their way from academic prototypes to first-generation commercial offerings. We offer some pragmatic prognostications for what the next wave might (or, more bluntly, should) focus on next, as pressure to improve AMS design productivity grows
Keywords :
SPICE; analogue integrated circuits; circuit CAD; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; SPICE; analog circuit; computer-aided design; design automation; integrated circuits; mixed-signal circuit; Analog computers; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Databases; Design automation; Design engineering; Integrated circuit modeling; Integrated circuit synthesis; Permission; Routing; Analog; computer-aided design; integrated circuits; mixed-signal;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Aided Design, 2006. ICCAD '06. IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-59593-389-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-3152
DOI :
10.1109/ICCAD.2006.320157
