Analog circuits often use structures like differential pairs and current mirrors, where the matching of device characteristics such as the threshold voltage V t is important. Circuits using these ...

In analog layout design, precise layout matching techniques are crucial to ensure the accuracy and performance of the circuit so that transistors exhibit similar electrical properties (i.e.

A schematic diagram is not a detailed blueprint of an analog circuit; instead, it’s more like architectural sketch of the circuit. Look at any schematic for a CMOS analog IC circuit and you will see ...

Abstract: This paper presents a layout-dependent manufacturability for analog integrated circuits. We focus on the relative variability of input op-amp-pair used in an instrumentation amplifier ...

Abstract: Matching placement and routing is very important in layout design of high performance analog circuits. This paper presents a matching-based placement and routing system for custom layout ...

Matching constraints in an analog integrated circuit (IC) are critical to optimizing layout performance. To extract these matching constraints accurately and efficiently from the netlist, we propose ...

All design engineers know it well: there is hardly any time left until tape-out, but the amount of work that remains is not decreasing as fast as the deadline is approaching. The intricate schematic ...

With small geometry silicon processes, additional nonfunctional geometric structures are required to maintain layer planarity during the chemical/mechanical polishing (CMP) phase of processing. The ...