Title
Syneco: Incremental Technology Mapping With Constrained Placement And Fast Detail Routing For Predictable Timing Improvement
Abstract
We present SynECO, a framework to achieve predictable timing improvement via incremental resynthesis and replacement. We target timing-critical paths postplacement and resynthesize and replace promising gates. We show since the wire delays are the non-negligible contributors to a critical-path delay, it is crucial to accurately estimate them to make a predictable synthesis modification. For this purpose, we incorporate an accurate timing analysis tool which uses fast detail routing for wire delay estimation. This allows generating timing estimates that correlate much better with post-routing values compared to Steiner-tree-based estimate of wiring tree and using D2M delay model. Detail routing information allows incorporation of factors such as crosstalk, metal layer assignment and via delays which are crucial for accurate analysis. For fast synthesis, we constrain our logical modifications to be from the physical neighborhood of target gates on the critical paths. Our synthesis framework is completely integrated with the Cadence Encounter tools for physical design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/ICCD.2008.4751915
2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER DESIGN
Keywords
Field
DocType
physical design,steiner tree,estimation,logic gates,optimization,integrated circuit design,critical path,vlsi,generation time,timing analysis,routing,network routing
Cadence,Logic gate,Computer science,Crosstalk,Real-time computing,Integrated circuit design,Static timing analysis,Technology mapping,Physical design,Very-large-scale integration
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1063-6404
0
0.34
References 
Authors
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anuj Kumar11911.09
Tai-Hsuan Wu21046.61
Azadeh Davoodi336234.99