NXP – Routing for Analog Chip Designs at NXP Semiconductors #SWI2011

The increasing demand for smaller, faster, and multi-functional electronic devices such as smartphones is one of the driving forces in the semiconductor industry. Combined with requirements on power usage, sustainability, and wireless functionality this is generating challenges in several domains. During the design of the layout, which is a representation of the chip in shapes in the physical layers (silicon, oxide, metal), one of the challenges is to place and route (wire) the circuit components in an optimal way.