This chapter presents the world's first autonomous mixedsignal SoC framework, driven entirely by user constraints, along with a suite of automated generators for analog blocks. The process-agnostic framework takes high-level user intent as inputs to generate optimized and fully verified analog and mixed-signal blocks using a cell-based design methodology. The approach is highly scalable and silicon-proven by an SoC prototype which includes 2 PLLs, 3 LDOs, 1 SRAM, and 2 temperature sensors fully integrated with a processor in a 65nm CMOS process. The physical design of all blocks, including analog, is achieved using optimized synthesis and APR flows in commercially available tools. The framework is portable across different planar and FinFET CMOS processes and requires no-human-in-the-loop, dramatically accelerating design time.
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