Frontiers in Analog CAD (FAC)
International Workshop on Design Automation for Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits
Thursday-Friday, November 5-6, 2015
Doubletree Hotel
6505 N Interstate 35
Austin, Texas 78752-4346, USA
+1-512-454-3737
Co-located with International
Conference on Computer-Aided Design
Growing digitization of integrated circuits has contributed
to making SoCs (SoC: system on a chip) ever more complex. Yet, a
substantial portion of a chip consists of analog and
mixed-signal (AMS) circuits that provide critical functionality
like signal conversion. Aggressive scaling of IC technologies,
as well as the advancing integration of heterogeneous physical
domains on a chip, substantially complicates the design of AMS
components. On one hand, their modeling and design becomes
extremely complex. On the other hand, their interplay with the
rest of the SoC challenges design, verification and test. These
new technology evolutions bring enormous challenges and
opportunities for AMS design automation. This trend is reflected
by an increase in research activity on AMS CAD worldwide. The
purpose of this workshop is to bring together academic and
industrial researchers from both design and CAD communities to
report recent advances and motivate new research topics and
directions in this area. Topics of interest include (but are not
limited to):
- Behavioral and performance modeling at circuit &
system levels
- Simulation and formal verification
- Model checking and theorem-proving methods
- Circuit optimization, synthesis and design space exploration
- PVT variations and reliability
- Testing, diagnosis and post-silicon validation
- Physical design
- Benchmark circuits
- Emerging design methodologies