ASHES 1.5: Analog Computing Synthesis for FPAAs and ASICs
Afolabi Ige, Jennifer Hasler · 2025
Synthesis tools can unlock the potential of analog architectures to achieve real-time computation, signal processing, inference and learning for low$S$WaP systems in commercial timescales. We present a methodology and results towards system analog and mixed-signal synthesis both for FPAAs and Custom Analog IC design. Building on previously efforts on large-scale Field Programmable Analog Arrays (FPAA) targeting tools enables tools capable of synthesizing new ICs. The IC synthesis is built upon our recent work on analog & mixed-signal programmable CMOS standard cell library that can be used across a range of CMOS process nodes (e.g. 180nm, 130nm, 65nm, 28nm, and 16nm CMOS). The entire tool-flow is being developed as an open-source tool that can be widely available. These approaches enable moving analog and mixed-signal design towards structured Design Space Exploration (DSE).