Design-Reuse

Top-down SoC Design Methodology

Deep sub-micron effects complicate design closure for very large designs. Top-down hierarchical design methodology combined with physical prototyping increases design productivity and restores ...
EDN

Physical Design Flow Taps Partition Layout

Detailed and precise hierarchical design planning is essential to achieving closure on large designs. In this article we describe a new hierarchical design flow and its usage on a 3 million-gate chip.
Design-Reuse

Using in-design physical verification to reduce tapeout schedules

. Tadahiko Yamamoto is Chief Specialist, Design Methodology Development Group, at Toshiba Corp. . Norikazu Ooishi is Specialist, Design Methodology Group, at Toshiba Corp. Physical designers moving to ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Hyperconvergence Of Design For Test And Physical Design

In today’s highly competitive semiconductor industry, chip-design companies strive for competitive advantages by optimizing designs for PPA (Power, Performance, Area). Along with the functional logic, ...