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Regularity-Oriented Analog Placement with Conditional Design Rules

Shigetoshi NAKATAKE, Masahiro KAWAKITA, Takao ITO, Masahiro KOJIMA, Michiko KOJIMA, Kenji IZUMI, Tadayuki HABASAKI

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This paper presents a novel regularity evaluation of placement structure and techniques for handling conditional design rules along with dynamic diffusion sharing and well island generation, which are developed based on Sequence-Pair. The regular structures such as topological rows, arrays and repetitive structures are characterized by the way of forming sub-sequences of a sequence-pair. A placement objective is formulated balancing the regularity and the area efficiency. Furthermore, diffusion sharing and well island can be also identified looking into forming of a sequence-pair. In experiments, we applied our regularity-oriented placement mixed with the constraint-driven technique to real analog designs, and attained the results comparable to manual designs even when imposing symmetry constraints. Besides, the results also revealed the regularity serves to increase row-structures applicable to the diffusion sharing for area saving and wire-length reduction.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E93-A No.12 pp.2389-2398
Publication Date
2010/12/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E93.A.2389
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category
Physical Level Design

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