Title
P.SIZE: a sizing aid for optimized designs
Abstract
Transistor sizing at layout level is necessary to improve the overall performance of integrated circuits. We present in this paper the definition and the validation of a sizing aid, P.Size, integrated in a flexible cell generator. Based on a local optimization defined through an explicit formulation of delays, this sizing aid can be used to optimize real data paths, under constraint, with few CPU time requirements. Validations, through comparison with a mathematical optimization procedure and an industrial optimizer, are given.
Year
DOI
Venue
1992
10.1109/EURDAC.1992.246248
EURO-DAC '92 Proceedings of the conference on European design automation
Keywords
Field
DocType
optimized design,sizing aid,local optimization,integrated circuit layout,central processing unit,fabrication,vlsi,design optimization,constraint optimization,optimal design,integrated circuit,robots
CPU time,Computer science,Circuit extraction,IC layout editor,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Sizing,Topology optimization,Physical design,Local search (optimization),Very-large-scale integration,Reliability engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-8186-2780-8
1
0.67
References 
Authors
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
N. Azemard110414.17
Bonzom, V.281.66
Daniel Auvergne314531.67