Title
Challenges of cell selection algorithms in industrial high performance microprocessor designs.
Abstract
Timing-constrained power-driven gate sizing has aroused lot of research interest after the recent discrete gate sizing contests organized by International Symposium on Physical Design. Since then, there are plenty of research papers published and new algorithms are proposed based on the contest formulation. However, almost all (new and old) papers in the literature ignore the details of how power-driven gate sizing fits in industrial physical synthesis flows, which limits their practical usage. This paper aims at filling this knowledge gap. We explain our approach to integrate a state-of-the-art Lagrangian Relaxation-based gate sizing into our actual physical synthesis framework, and explain the challenges and issues we observed from the point of view of VLSI design flows.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.vlsi.2015.09.001
Integration
Keywords
Field
DocType
Lagrangian relaxation,Gate sizing,Cell selection,VLSI
Gate sizing,Industrial design,Computer science,Microprocessor,Selection algorithm,Algorithm,Lagrangian relaxation,Physical design,Physical synthesis,Very-large-scale integration
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
52
C
0167-9260
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tiago Reimann1243.27
Cliff Sze228716.12
Ricardo A. L. Reis321748.75