ASIC Construction • System partitioning – goal: partition a system into a number of modules – objectives: minimize the number of external connections; keep each module smaller than max size • Floorplanning – goal: calculate the sizes of all the blocks and assign them locations – objectives: keep the highly connected blocks physically close to each other • Placement – goal: assign the interconnect areas and the location of all the logic cells within the flexible blocks – objectives: minimize the ...
원문 링크 : Physical Design
