Timing driven placement algorithm for standard-cell design

(1994) Timing driven placement algorithm for standard-cell design. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

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The performance of present VLSI circuits is dominated by interconnect delays. Therefore, there is a great demand to design new placement tools to incorporate performance measures of the circuits. This thesis presents a new method of solving the problem of timing driven placement for standard-cell design style using Genetic Algorithm approach. This problem is solved in an iterative manner using genetic operators. The timing problem is modeled in a path oriented manner, where timing constraints are imposed on total path delays which include both cell and interconnect delays. Improvements upto 17.7% were obtained with respect to clock speed-up of the tested examples compared to the results obtained by area driven placement tools. However, the improvements in timing have resulted in a little increase between 1.4% and 9.1% in the area of the chip after routing. The thesis work is embodied in a program called Timing Driven Genetic Algorithm for Placement (TDGAP)

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Subjects: Computer
Department: College of Computing and Mathematics > Computer Engineering
Committee Advisor: Sait, Sadiq M.
Committee Members: Youssef, Habib and Benten, M. S. T.
Depositing User: Mr. Admin Admin
Date Deposited: 22 Jun 2008 13:59
Last Modified: 01 Nov 2019 13:58
URI: http://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/id/eprint/10233