CHAMS Project

 

The project CHAMS (Cairo-Hurricane AMS) aims at developing an innovative flow for design reuse of analog intellectual properties in the form of analog Firm IP. CHAMS tools are designed on top of a central mixed-signal database that holds design knowledge of both digital and analog parts of a system-on-chip.

Within this perspective, we mainly focus on developing smart knowledge-aware systems that alleviate the effort of knowledge documentation by introducing a minimum level of design automation that is still acceptable by the designer.

We show that knowledge-aware systems can efficiently produce consistent and reusable sizing procedures that respect topology constraints, designer's hypotheses and design constraints. These sizing procedures are guaranteed by construction to be technology independent and are able to produce analog designs with the same simulator accuracy.

Knowledge-aware systems are coupled with intelligent and designer-driven layout generation to include deep submicronic effects such and stress effects and well-proximity effects during sizing. This ensures that analog IP sizing takes into account deep submicronic effects induced from the automatically generated layout styles.