EDN

Physical Design Flow Taps Partition Layout

Detailed and precise hierarchical design planning is essential to achieving closure on large designs. In this article we describe a new hierarchical design flow and its usage on a 3 million-gate chip.
Inc

Facility Layout and Design

Facility layout and design is an important component of a business’s overall operations, both in terms of maximizing the effectiveness of the production process and meeting the needs of employees. The ...
Clinical Advisor

Physical Design of Critical Care Units Influences Nursing Culture

Decentralized workstations may limit collaboration, and study reveals perception of teamwork tied to break-taking behavior.
Design-Reuse

AI in VLSI Physical Design: Opportunities and Challenges

As semiconductor technology pushes the boundaries of scale and complexity, traditional VLSI physical design methodologies are struggling to keep pace. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), ...
Design-Reuse

Using in-design physical verification to reduce tapeout schedules

. Tadahiko Yamamoto is Chief Specialist, Design Methodology Development Group, at Toshiba Corp. . Norikazu Ooishi is Specialist, Design Methodology Group, at Toshiba Corp. Physical designers moving to ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Secure Physical Design Roadmap Enabling End-To-End Trustworthy IC Design Flow

The FICS Research Institute (University of Florida) has published a new research paper titled “Secure Physical Design.” This is the first and most comprehensive research work done in this area that ...