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Analog Layout Automation on Advanced Process Technologies.

ACM International Symposium on Physical Design(2023)

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Despite the digitization of analog and the disaggregated silicon trends, high-volume or high-performance system-on-chip (SoC) designs integrate numerous analog and mixed-signal (AMS) intellectual property (IP) blocks including voltage regulators, clock generators, sensors, memory and other interfaces. For example, fine-grain dynamic voltage and frequency scaling requires a dedicated clock generator and voltage regulator per compute unit. The design of these blocks in advanced FinFET or GAAFET technologies is challenging due to the i) increasing gap between schematic and post-layout simulation, ii) design rule complexity, and iii) strict reliability rules [1]. The convergence of a high-performance or a high-power block may require multiple iterations of circuit sizing and layout changes. As a result, physical design, which is primarily a manual effort, has become a key bottleneck in the design process. Migrating these blocks across process technologies or process variants only exacerbates the problem. Layout synthesis for AMS IP blocks is an on-going research problem with a long history [2] and is gaining more attention recently to leverage the latest advances in machine learning [3]. Yet neither template nor optimization-based approaches have reduced the burden significantly for high performance products on leading process technologies. This talk will first overview physical design of AMS IP blocks on an advanced process technology highlighting the opportunities and the expectations from layout automation during this process. On a new process technology, this process starts with conducting early layout studies on a selection of critical high performance or high power subcircuits. In parallel, the IP blocks are placed in a bottom-up fashion to optimize the IP floorplan but also to provide information to SoC floorplanning. Routing follows the placement to verify the post-layout performance. A quick turnaround during these explorations is vital to decide on any architectural changes or circuit re-sizing. The rest of the talk will share experiences with piloting an open-source analog layout synthesis tool flow [4] on a 22nm FinFET technology for voltage regulators [5]. The learnings from this exercise and the extensions to the tool flow will be summarized that include Boolean satisfiability-based routing algorithm, formally verifiable constraint language and leveraging parameterized and standard cells. The talk will conclude with opportunities for research.
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Analog Circuits,CMOS Design,Analog Circuit Fault Diagnosis,FPGA,Power Optimization
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要点】:本文讨论了在先进工艺技术上进行模拟布局自动化的问题,并提出了一个基于布尔满足性的路由算法、可验证的约束语言以及利用参数化和标准单元的解决方案,以应对高级FinFET或GAAFET工艺中布局设计的挑战。

方法】:文章首先概述了在先进工艺技术上进行模拟布局设计的机遇和期望,然后分享了在一个22nm FinFET工艺中,对电压调节器进行的开源模拟布局合成工具流程的试点经验。

实验】:实验从早期对关键高性能或高功耗子电路的布局研究开始,同时以自底向上的方式对IP块进行放置以优化IP地面图,并提供给SoC地面规划信息。布线跟随放置以验证后布局性能。这些探索过程中的快速周转对于决定任何架构变化或电路重新尺寸化至关重要。