ECE 525 Physical Design Automation
Advances in the automation of VLSI layouts with emphasis on recent development in deep submicron, FPGA and MCM technologies. Floorplanning, placement, routing objectives in high performance designs using deep submicron technology. Timing analysis in the presence of crosstalk. FPGA architectures and design with dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs. Physical design automation for MCMs.
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture
Prerequisites: ECE 423,
ECE 425, or consent of instructor
Textbooks:
“Algorithms for
VLSI Physical Design Automation, 3rd Edition”, N. Sherwani,
Springer, 1999, ISBN: 0-7923-8393-1.
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