Conexant Systems, Inc.

Florin Balasa

Koen Lampaert

An automated method for packing cells in the generation of an integrated circuit design layout that is especially useful for circuits having symmetry constraints, which is the case for most analog circuits, uses sequence pair encoding and simulated annealing. From the set of all cells needed to implement the circuit, subsets of the cells are defined that must exhibit symmetry. Symmetry constraints are defined for each subset and the cells are encoded as ordered sequence-pairs. To reduce the solution space, the initial sequence pair encoding is required to be symmetry-feasible and the annealer subspace is limited to symmetry-feasible sequence-pairs.

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Tustin, CA, United States of America

Florin Balasa