Physical Design Essentials

Physical Design Essentials is arranged in a format that follows the industry-common ASIC physical design flow.Its target audience is today s physical design engineers or professionals in the ASIC area that are expected to be conversant with all aspects of ASIC design implementation stages including device processes, library development, place-and-route algorithms, verification and testing. It begins with general concepts of an ASIC library, then covers floorplanning, placement, routing, verification, and finally, testing.Topics covered include:- Basic standard cell design, transistor-sizing, and layout styles- Linear, non-linear, and polynomial characterization- Physical design constraints and floorplanning styles- Algorithms used for placement- Clock Tree Synthesis- Algorithms used for global and detailed routing- Parasitic extraction- Functional timing and physical methods of verification- Electronic Testing