DocumentCode
2316513
Title
SYMCELL-a symbolic standard cell design system
Author
Ramachandran, K. ; Cordell, R. ; Daly, D. ; Deutsch, D. ; Kwan, A.
Author_Institution
Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ, USA
fYear
1990
fDate
13-16 May 1990
Abstract
SYMCELL is a standard cell system that enables cells to be created, placed, and globally routed symbolically. Cell rows are compacted and pitchmatched, and channels are routed for a specific set of design rules. The symbolic cell libraries can be maintained independent of the process design rules, and new cells can be designed with the ease of symbolic layout. Circuit speed and layout density approach that of custom layouts. The system is currently in use at Bellcore on prototype chip designs for broadband and HDTV research
Keywords
CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; cellular arrays; circuit layout CAD; Bellcore; CMOS; HDTV research; SYMCELL; broadband research; compaction; globally routed symbolically; layout density; pitch matching; process design rules; prototype chip designs; standard cell system; symbolic cell libraries; symbolic layout; symbolic standard cell design system; Character generation; Circuits; Compaction; Costs; Geometry; Investments; Libraries; Process design; Productivity; Very large scale integration;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 1990., Proceedings of the IEEE 1990
Conference_Location
Boston, MA
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CICC.1990.124750
Filename
124750
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