PLAYOUT — A Hierarchical Layout System [chapter]

Gerhard Zimmermann
1988 GI — 18. Jahrestagung II  
have been defined earlier [Zim81]: behavior, structure and the physical domain. The early design phases like Hardware/Software Co-design, High-Level Synthesis, and Logic Synthesis cover the left part of the plane while the physical design phase consisting of Chip Planning, Place&Route, and Layout Synthesis correspond to the right side. Verification and extraction steps as well as simulation and test aspects can be found in all design phases. We split the physical domain into floorplan and
more » ... yout because of our chip planning emphasis. Cells compose supercells or represent the complete system and are composed of subcells or are leaf cells. This relation defines an aggregation hierarchy which is represented by the levels in Figure 2 . The levels can be defined as needed and the three levels in Figure 2 describe an example only.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-74135-7_2 dblp:conf/gi/Zimmermann88 fatcat:zk7pm3urrjhhfczpxevrj2gwci