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Design flow

Design flows, often known as RTL to GDSII, are the explicit combination of electronic design automation tools to accomplish the design of an integrated circuit. They start with a textual description of the proposed chip operation, written in a register transfer level (RTL) language such as Verilog. These are converted to a netlist by a logic synthesis…

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Design flow

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Triples31
Avg. degree1.9
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related to history · 16
Design flow → Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, As, CMOS, Design Automation Conference, EDA, Engineers, GDSII, However, In, Many, Moore's, New, The, The RTL, The Tides, This
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Design flow → EDA, Electronic Design Automation, Floorplan, Routing

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design flow steps tools integrated chip gdsii rtl synthesis led changes age automation logic placement routing placed routed chips significant

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Veriloginstance oflanguage0.80text
synthesisinstance ofThis first led to stand-alone tools0.80text
placementinstance ofThis first led to stand-alone tools0.80text
and routinginstance ofThis first led to stand-alone tools0.80text
each of which tackled part of the probleminstance ofThis first led to stand-alone tools0.80text
interconnect delayinstance ofand the importance of new effects0.80text
design for manufacturabilityinstance ofand the importance of new effects0.80text
led to the need to integrate these tools in order to achieve design closure.The RTL to GDSII flow underwent significant changes from 1980 through 2005instance ofand the importance of new effects0.80text
leakage powerinstance ofNew scaling challenges0.80text
variabilityinstance ofNew scaling challenges0.80text
and reliability will continue to require significant changes to the design closure process in the futureinstance ofNew scaling challenges0.80text
Design flowrelated to historyIn0.60section

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