Performance-effective compaction of standard-cell libraries for digital design

12th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 315-322

  Ricci, Andrea ^a   De Munari, Ilaria ^a   Ciampolini, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Complexity reduction; Digital design; Standard cell library

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM COMPLEXITY; BENCHMARK CIRCUIT; CIRCUIT DESIGNS; CIRCUIT SYNTHESIS; DIGITAL DESIGNS; HIGH-SPEED CIRCUITRY; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; OPTIMIZATION CRITERIA; REDUCTION STRATEGY; SMALL AREA; STANDARD-CELL; SYNTHESIS PROCESS; SYNTHESIS TIME; SYNTHESIS TOOL; TECHNOLOGY NODES;

CELLS; COMPACTION; DESIGN; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; LIBRARIES; MAINTENANCE; OPTIMIZATION; STANDARDS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 74549123645     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSD.2009.139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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