Physical Design Essentials: An ASIC Design Implementation Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781441942197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 212 str.

Khosrow Golshan

Opis

Arranged in a format that follows the industry-common ASIC physical design flow, Physical Design Essentials begins with general concepts of an ASIC library, then examines floorplanning, placement, routing, verification, and finally, testing.

Among the topics covered are Basic standard cell design, transistor-sizing, and layout styles; Linear, non-linear, and polynomial characterization; Physical design constraints and floorplanning styles; Algorithms used for placement; Clock Tree Synthesis; Parasitic extraction; Electronic Testing, and many more.

Spis treści

Libraries.- Floorplanning.- Placement.- Routing.- Verification.- Testing.

O autorze

Physical Design Essentials is arranged in a format that follows the industry-common ASIC physical design flow. Its target audience is today s physical design engineers or professionals in the ASIC area that are expected to be conversant with all aspects of ASIC design implementation stages including device processes, library development, place-and-route algorithms, verification and testing. It begins with general concepts of an ASIC library, then covers floor planning, placement, routing, verification, and finally, testing.
Topics covered include: Basic standard cell design, transistor-sizing, and layout styles; Linear, non-linear, and polynomial characterization; Physical design constraints and floor planning styles; Algorithms used for placement Clock Tree Synthesis; Algorithms used for global and detailed routing; parasitic extraction; Functional timing and physical methods of verification; Electronic Testing.

Blurb

Physical Design Essentials explains the basic steps required in the physical design of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). The subject matter presentation follows the industry-common ASIC physical design flow.

Topics covered include:

• Basic standard cell design, transistor-sizing, and layout styles
• Linear, non-linear, and polynomial characterization
• Physical design constraints and floor planning styles
• Algorithms used for placement
• Clock tree synthesis
• Algorithms used for global and detailed routing
• Parasitic extraction
• Functional timing and physical methods of verification
• Testing Techniques

Physical Design Essentials is written for professional design engineers who need to be conversant with all aspects of ASIC design implementation: device processes, library development, place-and-route algorithms, verification, and testing.