TY  - THES
U1  - Dissertation / Habilitation
A1  - Marolt, Daniel
T1  - SWARM: a novel methodology for integrated circuit layout automation based on principles of self-organization
N2  - After more than three decades of electronic design automation, most layouts for analog integrated circuits are still handcrafted in a laborious manual fashion today. This book presents Self-organized Wiring and Arrangement of Responsive Modules (SWARM), a novel interdisciplinary methodology addressing the design problem with a decentralized multi-agent system. Its basic approach, similar to the roundup of a sheep herd, is to let autonomous layout modules interact with each other inside a successively tightened layout zone. Considering various principles of self-organization, remarkable overall solutions can result from the individual, local, selfish actions of the modules. Displaying this fascinating phenomenon of emergence, examples demonstrate SWARM’s suitability for floorplanning purposes and its application to practical place-and-route problems. From an academic point of view, SWARM combines the strengths of procedural generators with the assets of optimization algorithms, thus paving the way for a new automation paradigm called bottom-up meets top-down.
KW  - integrated circuits
KW  - analog layout
KW  - floorplanning
KW  - electronic design automation
KW  - optimization algorithms
KW  - procedural generators
KW  - multi-agent systems
Y2  - 2020
SN  - 978-3-18-347520-9
SB  - 978-3-18-347520-9
U6  - https://doi.org/10.51202/9783186475206
DO  - https://doi.org/10.51202/9783186475206
SP  - 247
S1  - 247
PB  - VDI Verlag
CY  - Düsseldorf
ER  -