An application of physical methods to the computer aided design of electronic circuits

P. . Siarry , G. Dreyfus

Methods and algorithms used in simulations of physical phenomena are applied to the automated design of integrated or printed circuits. Representative results, obtained by these algorithms, are presented. They show that the design of the layout of an integrated circuit may be viewed as a transition from a disordered state to a partially ordered state; this comparison leads to an efficient method allowing an optimum placement of the components and a routing of the connections.

Mots clés: circuit CAD; computer aided design; electronic circuits; algorithms; simulations; physical phenomena; automated design; printed circuits; integrated circuit; transition; disordered state; partially ordered state

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P. . Siarry, G. Dreyfus. An application of physical methods to the computer aided design of electronic circuits. Journal de Physique Lettres, 1984, 45 (1), pp.39-48. ⟨10.1051/jphyslet:0198400450103900⟩. ⟨jpa-00232306⟩