COmPOSER: Circuit Optimization of mm-wave/RF circuits with Performance-Oriented Synthesis for Efficient Realizations

TL;DR

COmPOSER is an open-source framework that automates RF/mm-wave circuit design, achieving expert-level performance with significantly increased productivity through integrated synthesis, layout, and validation tools.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive, physics-based, machine-learning-enhanced design automation framework for RF/mm-wave circuits, unifying multiple design stages in a single tool.

Findings

COmPOSER achieves performance comparable to expert manual designs.

It delivers 100-300x productivity improvements.

Validated on LNAs and PAs up to 60GHz in 65nm process.

Abstract

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. Github repo github[dot]com[slash]UMN-EDA[slash]COmPOSER