SWARM: A Novel Methodology for Integrated Circuit Layout Automation Based on Principles of Self-organization
Zusammenfassung
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 p...
Schlagworte
Integrated Circuits Analog Layout Floorplanning Placement Routing Constraints Electronic Design Automation Optimization Algorithms Procedural Generators Multi-Agent Systems- 1–165 The Methodology 1–165
- 166–224 The Implementation 166–224
- 220–224 6 Summary and Outlook 220–224
- 225–250 Listings 225–250
- 225–230 Vocabulary 225–230
- 231–250 References 231–250