Recent directions in netlist partitioning: a survey
Integration, the VLSI Journal
Advanced compiler design and implementation
Advanced compiler design and implementation
Engineering change: methodology and applications to behavioral and system synthesis
Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Incremental logic synthesis through gate logic structure identification
DAC '86 Proceedings of the 23rd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits
Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits
Fast Prototyping of Datapath-Intensive Architectures
IEEE Design & Test
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Engineering change (EC) is a technique that enables a designer to rapidly perform minor specification alternations while minimally resynthesizing only small portions of the specification throughout several levels of design abstraction. In this paper, we introduce the first EC-based synthesis technique for coordinated design optimization in multiple steps. The technique has four phases: optimization region identification, feedback formulation, resynthesis in first step, and finally resynthesis in the second design step. To demonstrate the technique, we focus on behavioral synthesis and transformation, scheduling, and register assignment steps. We developed a generic EC-based approach for design optimization during multiple consecutive synthesis steps. Next, we show how one can use EC to enhance coordinated application of transformations and scheduling, and scheduling and register assignment.