The fine art of IC design

  • Authors:
  • Barbara Chappell

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Designers of 100-million-transistor chips face daunting challenges, most especially in dealing with switching currents, optimization, asynchronization, reuse, and design skills. Certain subjects-interconnections, for example-will prove to cut across all five topics. All the same, the issues offer a useful view on what designers will face in handling these complexities. These five topics are discussed in the paper