Layout Conscious Bus Architecture Synthesis for Deep Submicron Systems on Chip

  • Authors:
  • Nattawut Thepayasuwan;Alex Doboli

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

System-level design has a disadvantage in not knowing important aspects about the final layout. This is critical for SoC, where uncertainties in communication delay by very deep submicron effects cannot be neglected. This paper presents a layout-aware bus architecture (BA) synthesis algorithm for designing the communication sub-system of an SoC. BA synthesisincludes finding bus topology and routing individual buses, so that constraints like area, bus speed and length, are tackled at the physical level. The paper presents the BA automaticallysynthesized for a network processor and a JPEG SoC.