Title :
A minimum cut based re-synthesis approach
Author :
Welling, M. ; Tragoudas, S. ; Wang, H.
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL, USA
Abstract :
A new re-synthesis approach that benefits from min-cut based partitioning is proposed. This divide and conquer approach is shown to improve the performance of existing synthesis tools on a variety of benchmarks.
Keywords :
circuit CAD; divide and conquer methods; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit modelling; software tools; circuit design modeling; divide and conquer approach; integrated circuits; min-cut based partitioning; minimum cut based resynthesis approach; multiple-level networks; synthesis tools; Automatic test pattern generation; Circuit faults; Circuit synthesis; Design optimization; Kernel; Network synthesis; Optimization methods; Packaging; Polynomials; Redundancy;
Conference_Titel :
Quality of Electronic Design, 2005. ISQED 2005. Sixth International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2301-3
DOI :
10.1109/ISQED.2005.9
