The electronic design automation (EDA) community has been actively exploring machine learning (ML) for very large-scale integrated computer-aided (VLSI CAD). Many studies explored learning-based techniques cross-stage prediction tasks in the flow to achieve faster convergence. Although building ML models usually requires a large amount of data, most can only generate small internal datasets val...

floorplanning is an important step in physical design of vlsi circuits. it is used to plan the positions of a set of circuit modules on a chip in order to optimize the circuit performance. however, modern floorplanning takes better care of providing extra options to place dedicated modules in the hierarchical designs to align circuit blocks one by one within certain bounding box for helping seq...

The design of electronic circuits can be achieved at many different refinement levels from the most detailed layout to the most abstract architectures. Given the complexity of Very Large Scaled Integrated Circuits (VLSI) which is far beyond human ability, computers are increasingly used to aid in the design and optimization processes. It is no longer efficient to use manual design techniques, i...

Since interconnect is becoming a limiting constraint for microelectronics technology, VLSI design curricula and supporting CAD tools require significant change. We describe the introduction of Rensselaer’s Interconnect Performance Estimator (RIPE) into a VLSI design class.

The trend of VLSI CAD tool development evolves towards functionally specialized, methodology-dependent and technologydependent. Confusion can easily arise during the design process because of the proliferation of CAD tools and the mammoth amounts of design data. This is aggravated by the fact that different CAD tools are usually created by different vendors with different interface styles. As a...

Partitioning is a critical area of VLSI CAD. In order to build complex digital logic circuits it is often essential to sub-divide a circuit into smaller parts.Circuit partitioning plays an important role in physical design automation of very large scale integration(VLSI)chips.In VLSI.In VLSI circuit partitioning the problem of obtaining minimum cut is of prime importance.To enhance other criter...

Wave-pipelining is a method of high-performance circuit design which implements pipelining in logic without the use of intermediate latches or registers. The combination of high-performance integrated circuit (IC) technologies, pipelined architectures, and sophisticated computer-aided design (CAD) tools has converted wave-pipelining from a theoretical oddity into a realistic, although challengi...

The processor uses a set of ten custom VLSI chips fabricated in HP's high-performance NMOS-III technology. The chip implements all 140 of containing architecture's instructions on an 8.4-mm-square die containing 115,000 transistors. ing ten complex chips concurrently takes more than a casual approach to organization and planning. It's capable of supporting multiple users CAD technical HP-UX app...