Closing the Gap Between ASIC & Custom Tools and Techniques for High-Performance ASIC Design /

• Main Authors: Chinnery, David. (Author), Keutzer, Kurt. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer-aided engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Electrical Engineering.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

by Kurt Keutzer Those looking for a quick overview of the book should fast-forward to the Introduction in Chapter 1. What follows is a personal account of the creation of this book. The challenge from Earl Killian, formerly an architect of the MIPS processors and at that time Chief Architect at Tens...

Table of Contents:

• and Overview of the Book
• Contributing Factors
• Improving Performance through Microarchitecture
• Reducing the Timing Overhead
• High-Speed Logic, Circuits, Libraries and Layout
• Finding Peak Performance in a Process
• Design Techniques
• Physical Prototyping Plans for High Performance
• Automatic Replacement of Flip-Flops by Latches in ASICs
• Useful-Skew Clock Synthesis Boosts ASIC Performance
• Faster and Lower Power Cell-Based Designs with Transistor-Level Cell Sizing
• Design Optimization with Automated Flex-Cell Creation
• Exploiting Structure and Managing Wires to Increase Density and Performance
• Semi-Custom Methods in a High-Performance Microprocessor Design
• Controlling Uncertainty in High Frequency Designs
• Increasing Circuit Performance through Statistical Design Techniques
• Design Examples
• Achieving 550MHz in a Standard Cell ASIC Methodology
• The iCOREǾ 520MHz Synthesizable CPU Core
• Creating Synthesizable ARM Processors with Near Custom Performance.