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Per Grön

12/14/2020, 1:35 PM
Has anyone looked at using ALIGN https://github.com/ALIGN-analoglayout/ALIGN-public with the sky130 process?
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Philipp Gühring

12/14/2020, 2:38 PM
Yes, I worked on it, you can see my repository https://github.com/thesourcerer8/ALIGN-public
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Per Grön

12/14/2020, 3:16 PM
That's great! Did you get to a point where it could be used in practice? What was the most challenging part?
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Amro Tork

12/14/2020, 5:31 PM
Interesting.
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Per Grön

12/15/2020, 1:09 PM
The ALIGN paper mentions that with more modern process nodes the design rules are stricter and allow fewer design options, which makes it easier to automate layout. I don't know if this means that ALIGN will work well only on more modern process nodes than 130nm
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Philipp Gühring

12/15/2020, 1:34 PM
Well, another question is whether those rules are easier to implement in ALIGN 🙂