Deterministic analog circuit placement using hierarchically bounded enumeration and enhanced shape functions

ABSTRACT

The analog placement algorithm Plantage, presented in this paper, generates placements for analog circuits with comprehensive placement constraints. Plantage is based on a hierarchically bounded enumeration of basic building blocks, using B*-trees. The practically relevant solution space is thereby enumerated quasi-complete. The sets of possible placements of the basic building blocks are represented and combined in a new efficient way, using enhanced shape functions. The result of Plantage is the Pareto front of placements with respect to different aspect ratios. The whole approach is deterministic, in contrast to existing analog placement algorithms.

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