Placement is essential in very large-scale integration (VLSI) physical design, as it directly affects the design cycle. Despite extensive prior research on placement, achieving fast and efficient placement remains challenging because of increasing complexity. In this paper, we comprehensively review progress optimization from perspective accelerating VLSI design. It can help researchers systema...

The electronic design automation (EDA) community has been actively exploring machine learning (ML) for very large-scale integrated computer-aided (VLSI CAD). Many studies explored learning-based techniques cross-stage prediction tasks in the flow to achieve faster convergence. Although building ML models usually requires a large amount of data, most can only generate small internal datasets val...

VLSI circuits design allows today to consider new modes of implementation for electrical controls. However, design techniques require an adaptation effort that few designers, too accustomed to the software approach, provide. The authors of this article propose to develop a methodology to guide the electrical designers towards optimal performances of control algorithms implementation. Thus, they...

The introductory VLSI design course at the University of Michigan has been ooered for over 10 years. More recently, it has been reorganized around a microprocessor design project. This paper describes the course philosophy and content, and the baseline project from which class projects begin. The introductory VLSI course, EECS427, teaches mask-level layout and integrated circuit design veriicat...

26 0740-7475/03/$17.00 © 2003 IEEE Copublished by the IEEE CS and the IEEE CASS IEEE Design & Test of Computers FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES, digital design has focused primarily on synchronous, clocked architectures. However, because clock rates have significantly increased while feature size has decreased, clock skew has become a major problem. To achieve acceptable skew, high-performance chips m...

The Computer Systems Laboratory has been involved in a VLSI research program for one and a half years. The major areas under investigation have included: analysis and synthesis design aids, applications of VLSI to computer graphics, !he design of a personal workstation, special purpose chip design, VLSI computer architectures, and hardware specification and verification. Progress on these resea...

The size and complexity of present day VLSI integrated circuits (IC) and systems demands the elimination of repetitive manual operations and computations in their design. This motivates the development of automatic design systems. Automation of a given (design) process requires its algorithmic analysis. The availability of fast and easily implementable algorithms is essential for the discipline...

In digital VLSI system the clock distribution network and flip flops are most power consuming components. The reduction of power consumption by clock distribution networks & flip flop makes the total VLSI system as low power VLSI system. In the earlier VLSI system design, different power consumption methods are followed to design the various flip-flops .The SABFF(sense amplifier based flip flop...