About

Project

Analysis and Conceptualization of Analog Layout Techniques

Master’s thesis completed as part of the M.Sc. Communications Engineering program at the Technical University of Munich, with a specialization in Communications Electronics.

The project studies how manually developed analog layout knowledge can be evaluated, represented, and reused in a structure-aware analog layout automation flow.

The work combines:

• manual analog layout;
• quantitative and comparative evaluation;
• layout-knowledge abstraction;
• reusable analog layout generation;
• physical-design representation;
• B*-tree-based placement;
• well-domain handling;
• hierarchical assembly;
• access-aware routing.

Thesis Structure

This portfolio follows the central research path of the thesis:

manual study → conceptual framework → automation-oriented representation → reusable generation → hierarchical physical integration

Research Interests

• Analog layout automation
• Electronic design automation
• Analog physical-design methodology
• Layout-aware circuit optimization
• Open-source integrated-circuit design flows

Author

Ruihua Gao

M.Sc. in Communications Engineering
Specialization: Communications Electronics
Technical University of Munich

For research, PhD, or professional inquiries:
ruihua_gao@outlook.com

Repository Purpose

This repository is a public research portfolio and technical documentation site for the thesis project.

The implementation source code and university project files, including raw circuit netlists and simulation code, are maintained separately and are not distributed through this repository.