2.3.2 形式化验证(Formal Verification) 2.4 逻辑综合(Logic Synthesis) 2.4.1 组合逻辑优化(Combinational Logic Optimization) 2.4.2 时序逻辑优化(Sequential Logic Optimization) 2.4.3 工艺映射(Technology Mapping) 2.5 物理综合(Physical Synthesis) 2.5.1 布局(Placement) 2.5.2 布线(Routing) 2.6 后续 写在最...
The practice of evaluating a design in hardware before sending it to manufacture is known as pre-silicon verification. It can test high-risk or newly produced IP without respinning the IC, saving money. Pre-silicon verification can be done with a simulator or an FPGA. benefit: Very...
摘要 There is a growing conversation these days about verification intellectual property. A clear analogy to the concept can be drawn from design IP: Use prefabricated building blocks that you can just drop into your flow to perform a predefined function. But instead of becoming blocks of the de...
Chapter One: Chip Innovation Is a Rich Person’s Game Chapter Two: The First Wave of Democratized Design Chapter Three: ASICs Get Pricey Chapter Four: Innovation Re-Boot and Democratized Design Debuts Again Democratize is an unusual word. It doesn’t appear in normal conversation very much...
VLSI Technology. With this new market, the need for tools to automate the simulation, design, and verification of chips became far more widespread. This development spawned many new companies to serve the need. A lot of the internal, captive teams at the large OEMs found new, exciting, and...
Isolation cells in theVLSI courseare extra cells introduced by synthesis tools to isolate buses/wires crossing from a circuit’s power-gated domain to its always-on domain. The isolation list is a list of all the buses or wires that require isolation cells. We provide the clamping value of ...
This short paper is the result of the invited talk I gave at the 2007 Haifa Verification Conference. Its purpose is to briefly summarize the main points of my talk and to provide background references. The original talk abstract was, “Dynamic verificati
A clock domain is a section of the design that is driven by one or more clocks that are coupled to one another. InVLSI design methodologies, a clock with a frequency of 10MHz and a divide by 2 clock driven from 10MHz is handled as a single clock domain design. Multiple clock domain ...
A typical SADP process flow can be seen in Fig. 1(a). The flow starts with a mandrel definition of a specific critical dimension (CD) and a defined pitch. Mandrel CD will ultimately control the critical dimensions of the metal lines. A spacer material, typically oxide, is deposited and ...
doing so is much more complicated a process with an SoC. In fact, it is near impossible to make changes to a system on chip once it has been manufactured, meaning if it is damaged or needs to be updated, you are better off making a new one rather than even attempting to repair or ...