Each design task—register-transfer-level (RTL) optimization, logic synthesis, chip place and route (P&R), logic and timing verification, and so on—requires the designer to use one or more ...

The combined design resulted in 11 instances of SRAMs with a total count of 50,000 bits, 42,300 gates of random logic, five clock domains and 17,787 nets. The first step in the design flow was logic ...

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On the manufacturing side, Matt provides each project with a chip area of 90 by 120 microns, enough for around 400 logic gates. Each chip gets eight inputs and eight outputs, which can operate at ...

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A part of the IP-design flow is shown in Figure 1. Our wild and crazy approach aims to navigate through this process in an automated manner or with the least amount of human intervention. The approach ...

Figure 2: A functional safety flow must include lifecycle management, safety analysis, design for safety, and safety verification solutions. A functional safety flow is the backbone of automotive SoC ...

This data analysis is critical to the logic verification flow. Other areas of the IC design flow generate a lot of data that traditionally has not been analyzed as exhaustively because it simply ...

Many different IP sources can be used in the design – from processor cores to embedded memory, logic and BIST – all implemented in a target foundry technology. The time and cost involved for ...