Placing substrate contacts into mixed-signal circuits controlling circuit performance

authored by

Andreas Hermann, Markus Olbrich, Erich Barke

Abstract

We present a method for the automatic placement of substrate contacts by controlling their influence on circuit performance. This guarantees a layout that complies with the circuit's specification concerning substrate coupling. The algorithm minimizes the substrate contact area. Our method can be applied at transistor and block level. An example at block level is presented.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Microelectronic Systems

Type

Conference article

Journal

Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Pages

373-376

No. of pages

4

ISSN

0886-5930

Publication date

2003

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electrical and Electronic Engineering