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.

Editor's Note: In Part 3 of this series, consultant and ASIC designer Tom Moxon covered several RTL and logic synthesis design flows. In this installment of the series, he'll describe new physical ...

As semiconductor technology pushes the boundaries of scale and complexity, traditional VLSI physical design methodologies are struggling to keep pace. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), ...

As integrated circuit (IC) designs continue to scale, the demand for efficient power management, performance optimization and reliable physical layout modification grows more critical. Meeting these ...

Taking physical design into account as early as possible has been a consideration of chip development teams for quite some time. Still, in interactions with customers and partners, 2022 marked a sharp ...

Planning for the physical layout and design of the data center building space should include more than just the equipment room. For example, areas for loading equipment, storage and support personnel ...

Enabling designers to perform block and cell physical verification from within layout environments such as Cadence's Virtuoso is Mentor Graphics' Calibre Interactive. This latest version in a ...

. 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 ...