Aggressive crunching of extracted RC netlists

  • Authors:
  • Vasant B. Rao;Jeffrey P. Soreff;Ravichander Ledalla;Fred L. Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM EDA, Hopewell Jct, NY;IBM EDA, Hopewell Jct, NY;IBM EDA, Hopewell Jct, NY;IBM Almaden, San Jose, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE international workshop on Timing issues in the specification and synthesis of digital systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper presents a short-and-update technique for resistors (possibly connected to sinks) that can further crunch the RC network effectively after eliminating internal nodes [1,14]. Our method produces a realizable RC circuit and preserves the total capacitance in the network. While our technique cannot guarantee preserving the Elmore delay at each network sink node, the maximum delay error can be controlled by the user. Our method provides a smooth tradeoff between run time and delay accuracy, ranging from full retention of all resistors to complete elimination.