TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Scheible, Jürgen
T1  - Optimized is not always optimal : the dilemma of analog design automation
T2  - ISPD '22: Proceedings of the 2022 International Symposium on Physical Design, virtual event, 27 - 30 March 2022
N2  - The vast majority of state-of-the-art integrated circuits are mixed-signal chips. While the design of the digital parts of the ICs is highly automated, the design of the analog circuitry is largely done manually; it is very time-consuming; and prone to error. Among the reasons generally listed for this is often the attitude of the analog designer. The fact is that many analog designers are convinced that human experience and intuition are needed for good analog design. This is why they distrust the automated synthesis tools. This observation is quite correct, but this is only a symptom of the real problem. This paper shows that this phenomenon is caused by very concrete technical (and thus very rational) issues. These issues lie in the mode of operation of the typical optimization processes employed for the synthesizing tasks. I will show that the dilemma that arises in analog design with these optimizers is the root cause of the low level of automation in analog design. The paper concludes with a review of proposals for automating analog design
KW  - analog design automation
KW  - optimization algorithms
KW  - procedural automation
KW  - analog layout synthesis
KW  - EDA
Y1  - 2022
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-36357
SN  - 978-1-4503-9210-5
SB  - 978-1-4503-9210-5
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3505170.3511042
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3505170.3511042
SP  - 151
EP  - 158
S1  - 8
PB  - ACM
CY  - New York
ER  -