One of the key factors in the design and development of submicron chip designs is the setting of good physical and timing constraints, no matter what type of design methodology you use. Constraints ...

In IC physical design, there is a tendency to focus on the synthesis and layout tasks, and to not give much consideration to the chip finishing tasks, at least not until the more pressing matters of ...

Fig 1. As an example of today’s ASIC design complexity, IBM’s Cu-32 ASIC product offering delivers 2.9K raw gates per square millimeter. Such advanced process nodes enable SoC design teams to ...

In a flat design flow, placement and routing resources are always visible and available. Designers then can perform routing optimization and avoid congestion to achieve a good-quality design ...