A hiererachical, error-tolerant compactor

  • Authors:
  • Christopher Kingsley

  • Affiliations:
  • VLSI Technology, Inc., 1101 Mckay Drive, San José, California

  • Venue:
  • DAC '84 Proceedings of the 21st Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

This paper describes a compactor that is practical for compacting whole chips that are designed hierarchically, and can produce a reasonable result in spite of the layout being over-constrained. The layout produced is good enough to be used in high volume chips. The compactor is currently used in a cell layout system and a chip assembly tool.