An Edge-endpoint-based Configurable Hardware Architecture for VLSI Layout Design Rule Checking
Author(s) -
Zhen Luo,
Margaret Martonosi,
Pranav Ashar
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
vlsi design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1065-514X
pISSN - 1026-7123
DOI - 10.1155/2000/71046
Subject(s) - computer science , very large scale integration , computer architecture , field programmable gate array , flexibility (engineering) , scalability , application specific integrated circuit , software , embedded system , process (computing) , enhanced data rates for gsm evolution , computer hardware , hardware architecture , programming language , operating system , statistics , mathematics , telecommunications
Previous efforts to build hardware accelerators for VLSI layout Design Rule Checking(DRC) were hobbled by the fact that it is often impractical to build a different rulecheckingASIC each time design rules or fabrication processes change. In this paper, wepropose a configurable hardware approach to DRC. It can garner impressive speedupsover software approaches, while retaining the flexibility needed to change the rule checkeras rules or processes change
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