Lecture Notes Series on Computing - Vol. 6
VLSI PHYSICAL DESIGN AUTOMATION
Theory and Practice
by Sadiq M Sait & Habib Youssef (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia)
VLSI is an important area of electronic and computer engineering. However, there are few textbooks available for undergraduate/postgraduate study of VLSI design automation and chip layout. VLSI Physical Design Automation: Theory and Practice fills the void and is an essential introduction for senior undergraduates, postgraduates and anyone starting work in the field of CAD for VLSI. It covers all aspects of physical design, together with such related areas as automatic cell generation, silicon compilation, layout editors and compaction. A problem-solving approach is adopted and each solution is illustrated with examples. Each topic is treated in a standard format: Problem Definition, Cost Functions and Constraints, Possible Approaches and Latest Developments.
Special features: The book deals with all aspects of VLSI physical design, from partitioning and floorplanning to layout generation and silicon compilation; provides a comprehensive treatment of most of the popular algorithms; covers the latest developments and gives a bibliography for further research; offers numerous fully described examples, problems and programming exercises.
Contents:
- Circuit Partitioning
- Floorplanning
- Placement
- Grid Routing
- Global
Routing
- Channel Routing
- Layout Generation
- Layout Editors and Compaction
- Appendix: Graph Theory and Complexity of Algorithms
Readership: Final year undergraduate students in computer science, computer
engineering and electrical engineering, as well as postgraduate students in VLSI design and design automation.
"This book will be a must reading for the next generation of CAD tool developers ... it should become a resource for any course on VLSI design."
Frederick Hill
University of Arizona |
"I found it well written. In my opinion it will better serve needs than any existing book on this subject ... I will use it as a text for the next year course."
Eugene Shragowitz
University of Minnesota |
| 504pp |
Pub. date: Oct 1999 |
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