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  • Placement with Symmetry Constraints for Analog IC Layout Design Based on Tree Representation

    Natsumi HIRAKAWA  Kunihiro FUJIYOSHI  

     
    PAPER-VLSI Design Technology and CAD

      Vol:
    E92-A No:2
      Page(s):
    467-474

    Symmetry constrains are the constraints that the given cells should be placed symmetrically in design of analog ICs. We use O-tree to represent placements and propose a decoding algorithm which can obtain one of the minimum placements satisfying the constraints. The decoding algorithm uses linear programming, which is too much time consuming. Therefore we propose a graph based method to recognize if there exists no placement satisfying both the given symmetry and O-tree constraints, and use the method before application of linear programming. The effectiveness of the proposed method was shown by computational experiments.