Title :
An ASIC design flow of deep submicron succeeds on first pass
Author :
Mair, Hugh ; Xiu, Liming
Author_Institution :
Texas Instrum. Inc., Dallas, TX, USA
Abstract :
Used in multimedia personal computers, Texas Instruments´ TVP4020 (Permedia 2) is a complete graphics solution. This chip is one of the first graphics processor to deliver 3D, 2D, AGP, PCI and RAMDAC on the same fully integrated device. The key to the successful implementation of any device lies in its design methodology. The growing levels of abstraction increase the front-end designer´s productivity greatly, but because the back-end design remains a geometric function of the number of the gates to be placed in the design, the change in design styles increase the difficulty for the physical designers. As a result, physical designers will need to increase and improve their skills, and the CAD tools will need to become more flexible and more capable. The successful implementation of TVP4020 (Permedia 2) on a 0.35 μm technology is a good example of how great an impact a good design methodology can have on the overall development of a device
Keywords :
CMOS logic circuits; application program interfaces; application specific integrated circuits; circuit layout CAD; digital signal processing chips; digital-analogue conversion; hardware description languages; high level synthesis; logic partitioning; multimedia computing; 0.35 micron; 3D graphics API; ASIC design flow; CAD; Permedia 2; RAM DAC; RAM compiler; TVP4020 chip; VHDL RTL; back end flow; backannotation; behaviour simulation; clock tree synthesis; complete graphics solution; deep submicron; design methodology; floorplanning; four metal level CMOS logic; front end flow; geometry set-up engine; graphics processor; logic synthesis; multimedia personal computers; on-chip macros; placement; routing; scan insertion; standard cell logic; Acceleration; Application specific integrated circuits; CMOS logic circuits; CMOS technology; Computer graphics; Design methodology; Instruments; Logic design; Logic programming; Routing;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4306-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICSICT.1998.785894
