Title :
VLSI design methods using the concept of sea-of-wires
Author :
Hsu, Wen-Ching ; Vai, Mankuan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, USA
Abstract :
The use of sea-of-wires technology was explored for both custom design hand-crafted layouts and semi-custom synthesized layouts. A symbolic layout interface and its associated library cells were developed. Our research result showed that, with a carefully designed cell library, synthesized layouts can achieve densities similar to hand-crafted layouts
Keywords :
VLSI; application specific integrated circuits; cellular arrays; circuit layout CAD; integrated circuit layout; VLSI design methods; custom design hand-crafted layouts; library cells; sea-of-wires technology; semicustom synthesized layouts; symbolic layout interface; Application specific integrated circuits; Costs; Design methodology; Libraries; Logic arrays; Logic design; Mass production; Programmable logic arrays; Very large scale integration; Wires;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1994., Proceedings of the 37th Midwest Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Lafayette, LA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2428-5
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.1994.519275
