Title :
BADGE-building block adviser and generator
Author :
Münzner, Andreas ; Pirsch, Peter
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Theor. Nachrichtentech. und Inf., Hannover Univ., West Germany
Abstract :
The CAD tool BADGE, which supports the system designer dealing with CMOS cell libraries, is presented. It provides a library database of alternative schemes for building blocks like adders, multipliers, etc., which are characterized by architecture-describing parameters. BADGE guides the selection of the appropriate scheme and generates the netlist exploiting a given cell library. Although an expert system shell is used to implement the BADGE system, the performance on a μVAXII is sufficient to generate a building block in a reasonable time. It takes about 3 min to create the netlist of an 8-bit fast-carry chain adder and about 5 min for an 8-bit braun-array multiplier consisting of 250 and 870 gates, respectively
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; cellular arrays; circuit layout CAD; database management systems; software tools; BADGE; CAD tool; CMOS cell libraries; adders; architecture-describing parameters; building block adviser and generator; building blocks; library database; multipliers; netlist generation; system designer; Adders; Circuit synthesis; Databases; Delay estimation; Design automation; Digital signal processing; Libraries; Logic; Signal design; Signal synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1989., IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.1989.100737
