COmPOSER: Circuit Optimization of mm-wave/RF circuits with Performance-Oriented Synthesis for Efficient Realizations
This addresses the challenge of time-consuming manual design for RF/mm-wave circuits, offering a significant productivity boost for engineers in this domain.
The authors tackled the problem of automating RF/mm-wave circuit design by developing COmPOSER, an open-source framework that translates specifications into optimized circuits with layouts, achieving performance comparable to expert manual designs and a 100-300x productivity gain.
This work presents COmPOSER, an open-source, end-to-end framework for RF/mm-wave design automation that translates target specifications into optimized circuits with layouts. It unifies schematic synthesis, layout generation for actives and passives, and placement/routing, incorporating physics-based equations and machine-learning-driven electromagnetic models. Based on post-layout validation on multiple LNAs and PAs operating at up to 60GHz in a commercial 65nm process-kit, COmPOSER meets performance targets, comparable to expert manual designs, while delivering a 100-300x productivity gain.