Title :
Analog CMOS IC block-diagram-level design capture, functional simulation, and layout assembly
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Davis, CA, USA
Abstract :
A computer aided design system to assist in the fast prototyping of analog CMOS ICs is presented. This CAD system allows the designer to create a design by selecting analog function blocks from a library and interconnecting them in a block-diagram-level design capture and simulation page. The new analog circuit is then simulated at a high level, a functional level, to evaluate circuit performance. The IC layout design is then assembled by a cell placement and routing program using cell layouts from the cell library. This assembled IC design layout is ready for submission for fabrication. Examples illustrate features of this CAD system
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; circuit analysis computing; circuit layout CAD; linear integrated circuits; IC layout design; analog CMOSIC; analog function blocks; block-diagram-level design capture; cell layouts; cell library; cell placement program; circuit performance; computer aided design system; functional simulation; high level simulation; layout assembly; routing program; Analog computers; Analog integrated circuits; Assembly; CMOS analog integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; Circuit simulation; Design automation; Integrated circuit layout; Libraries; Prototypes;
Conference_Titel :
Signals, Systems and Computers, 1992. 1992 Conference Record of The Twenty-Sixth Asilomar Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pacific Grove, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3160-0
DOI :
10.1109/ACSSC.1992.269111
