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.

With Windows 7's release just around the corner, now's a great time to get your PC ready for the new operating system. First step: separate your data onto a dedicated partition. A partition is what ...

The design complexity of sub-micron designs due to ever growing huge number of gates and interactions has made it difficult for physical design tools to handle the physical synthesis or placement and ...