BALLISTIC: An Analog Layout Language

An OTA Example

An example of the capabilities of BALLISTIC are illustrated below with a fully-differential OTA designed at the University of Toronto. The layouts are for the same amplifier, but with different vertical cell pitches ...

  100um Pitch

       175um Pitch

These layouts were generated from BALLISTIC code which was supplied with parameters (W, L, etc) by a front-end spreadsheet design package called PowerDesign.

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