Multilevel synthesis minimizing the routing factor

  • Authors:
  • P. Abouzeid;K. Sakouti;G. Saucier;F. Poirot

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DAC '90 Proceedings of the 27th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

This paper presents a multilevel synthesis method on standard cells aiming at reducing both gate and wiring areas. The goal is to decrease the routing factor which is defined as the ratio between the routing area and the gate area. The wiring is taken into account during the synthesis steps (factorization and technology mapping). The approach is based on lexicographical expression of Boolean function controlling input dependency, and on kernel filtering controlling excessive factorizations responsible for wiring complexity increase.