Physical Design of CMOS Chips in Six Easy Steps

  • Authors:
  • Sidney E. Benda

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SOFSEM '00 Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Aimed at software professional not familiar with design processes of semiconductor elements that execute their programs. This paper focuses on algorithms and software involved in a design, layout and verification of CMOS parts. The first section introduces basic building elements of a design--transistor and standard cell--and shows their representation in design database. The design flow is segmented into six distinct steps: design capture, synthesis, floorplanning, placement and routing, extraction and verification.