VLSI Physical Design: From Graph Partitioning to Timing Closure

• Main Authors: Kahng, Andrew B. (Author), Lienig, Jens (Author), Markov, Igor L. (Author), Hu, Jin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Logic design.; Computer-aided engineering.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Logic Design.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.

Design and optimization of integrated circuits are essential to the creation of new semiconductor chips, and physical optimizations are becoming more prominent as a result of semiconductor scaling. Modern chip design has become so complex that it is largely performed by specialized software, which i...