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

This book carefully details design tools and techniques for high-performance ASIC design. Using these techniques, the performance of ASIC designs can be improved by two to three times.Important topics include:Improving performance through microarchitecture; Timing-driven floorplanning; Controlling and exploiting clock skew; High performance latch-based design in an ASIC methodology; Automatically identifying and synthesizing complex logic gates; Automated cell sizing to increase performance and reduce power; Controlling process variation.These techniques are illustrated by designs running two to three times the speed of typical ASICs in the same process generation.Chinnery, David is the author of 'Closing the Gap Between Asic & Custom Tools and Techniques for High-Performance Asic Design' with ISBN 9781402071133 and ISBN 1402071132.