Physical Design Essentials: An ASIC Design Implementation Perspective

Physical Design Essentials explains the basic steps required in the physical design of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). The subject matter presentation follows the industry-common ASIC physical design flow.

Topics covered include:

• Basic standard cell design, transistor-sizing, and layout styles

• Linear, non-linear, and polynomial characterization

• Physical design constraints and floor planning styles

• Algorithms used for placement

• Clock tree synthesis...