An Integrated Environment for Technology Closure of Deep-Submicron IC Designs

  • Authors:
  • Louise Trevillyan;David Kung;Ruchir Puri;Lakshmi N. Reddy;Michael A. Kazda

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center;IBM Microelectronics Division;IBM Microelectronics Division

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Design & Test
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

With larger chip images and increasingly aggressive technologies, key design processes must interoperate. PDS, a physical-synthesis system, accomplishes technology closure through interacting processes of logic optimization, placement, timing, clock insertion, and routing, all using a common infrastructure with robust variable-accuracy analysis abstractions.