Wave steering to integrate logic and physical syntheses |
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Authors: | Mukherjee A Marek-Sadowska M |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA; |
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Abstract: | Wave steering is a unified logic and physical synthesis scheme that algorithmically generates high-throughput circuits with fast turn-around times. Binary decision diagram (BDD)-type structures are altered to satisfy certain electrical constraints, embedded in silicon with pass transistor logic (PTL), and pipelined to very fine granularity using a novel two-phase clocking scheme. This direct PTL mapping of a logic representation provides good electrical estimations to a front-end tool like the logic synthesizer at an early phase of the design cycle. We apply our wave steering technique to high throughput computation-intensive datapath combinational circuits. We achieve an average speedup of 4.2 times compared to standard cell (SC) implementations of high performance arithmetic circuits at the cost of only about 76% average increase in area. The results look extremely encouraging; all the more so, considering that we also achieve an average reduction of 27% in latency and 15% in power compared to SC circuits. |
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