Abstract
Structured ASICs present an attractive alternative to reducing de-sign costs and turnaround times in nanometer designs. As with conven-tional ASICs, such designs require global wires to be buffered. However, via-programmable designs must prefabricate and preplace buffers in the layout. This oaper proposes a novel and accurate statistical estimation technique jo. distributing prefabricated buffers through a layout. It employs Rent's rule to estimate the buffer distribution required for the layout, so that an appropriate structured ASIC may be selected for the design. Experimental results show that the estimation for a uniform buffer distribution is accurate and economic.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2005 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2005 |
| Pages | 23-26 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| State | Published - 2005 |
| Event | 2005 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2005 - Shanghai, China Duration: Jan 18 2005 → Jan 21 2005 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC |
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| Volume | 1 |
Other
| Other | 2005 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2005 |
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| Country/Territory | China |
| City | Shanghai |
| Period | 1/18/05 → 1/21/05 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research is partly supported by NSF award CCF-0205227.
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