Analog layout automation via self-organization: enhancing the novel SWARM approach
- This paper enhances SWARM, a novel deterministic analog layout automation approach based on the idea of cellular automata. SWARM implements a decentralized interaction model in which responsive layout modules, covering basic circuit types, autonomously move, rotate and deform themselves to let constraint-compliant, compact layout solutions emerge from a synergetic flow of self-organization. With the ability to consider design constraints both implicitly and explicitly, SWARM joins the layout quality of procedural generators with the flexibility of optimization algorithms, combining these two kinds of automation into a “bottom-up meets top-down” flow. The new enhancements are demonstrated in an OTA example, depicting the power of SWARM and its enormous potential for future developments.
| Author of HS Reutlingen | Marolt, Daniel; Scheible, Jürgen |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/LASCAS.2016.7451008 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4673-7835-2 |
| Erschienen in: | LASCAS 2016 : VII IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits & Systems : R9 IEEE CASS flagship conference : February 28 to March 2, 2016, Ingleses Beach, Florianopolis, Brazil |
| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Place of publication: | Piscataway, NJ |
| Document Type: | Conference proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 2016 |
| Tag: | cellular automata; distributed artificial intelligence; emergent behavior; multi-agent system; parameterized cells |
| Page Number: | 4 |
| First Page: | 55 |
| Last Page: | 58 |
| DDC classes: | 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau |
| Open access?: | Nein |
| Licence (German): |  In Copyright - Urheberrechtlich geschützt |
