Compaction and Circuit Extraction in the MAGIC IC Layout System

Download or read book Compaction and Circuit Extraction in the MAGIC IC Layout System written by Walter Stewart Scott and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the full custom approach to the design of integrated circuits offers many advantages over other approaches, it is the most time-consuming design of all. Much of this time is spent during the debug cycle, making changes to the layout of the circuit and then running a circuit extractor prior to simulating the design. This thesis introduces two new computer-aided design tools that drastically reduce the time spent in thsi debug cycle: a fast, new circuit extractor, and an operation called plowing for making changes to mask level layout. Both tools have been implemented as part of the Magic IC layout system.