Is it possible to generate analog layout automatically from schematic?
Is this tool Pulsic Animate useful in everyday work?
Does anyone have experience with this tool?
Can it at least speed up layout design?

I hope this is not going to happen since I would lose the job.

Have a look:
https://vimeo.com/98432510
Maybe it can not replace person but it can help.

Cadence IC6 has something similar, but it is far away from compleat automation.

IC6 does routing and placing separately, this tool does it at the same time to find optimal solution.

We have never used cadence routers for analog layout becouse they are very bad.
I have been working like layout designer for 5 yeears.

I like features for recognizing diff pairs and current mirrors so they can be matched automatically.
I think this is a bit better then Cadence analog router.

I think this is far away from real breakthrough.

Do you have any good book to recommend for layout design?

I was learning throw my work.
The best book is art of analog layout.

Thank you.
Which tools do you use for design?

Most of the time I use Cadence Virtuoso Layout.

Do you use L or XL Layout?
Is XL really much better since is much more expensive?

I usually use L. XL is better but we have just a few licence.
We use it only for top level layout not for block layouts.

What do you use for DRC and LVS check?

We had been using Assure for a long time and finally we have shifted to Calibre.

I am asking since we had a lot of problems with assure.
It could not find antenna rule and many other DRC rules.
I thought it was because of bad pdk support.
So we had to switch to calibre.

But it seems that calibre generally works better.

In my oppinion calibre is better.