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The Emergence of Physical Synthesis as a Mainstream Design Technology
Abstract
Physical Synthesis generates an efficient transistor level circuit
layout from SPICE netlist through a process of placement, routing and
compaction controlled by the designer's architecture specification and
process design rules. This talk presents the role of Physical Synthesis
in the context of state-of-the-art digital circuit design flows. We
also describe opportunities for coupling circuit optimization operations
with the physical design process. Specific applications presented
include standard cell libraries, I/O pad macros, custom data paths and
memory peripheral circuits.
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