Abstract:This paper describes a new hierarchical design method for large scale and high-performance LSIs, which eliminates the need to perform budgeting. The budgeting step in hierarchical design partitions the total propagation time constraint for a path between any two flip-flops (FFs) in different hierarchical blocks into budgets for the different segments of the path that lie within different blocks. In practice, budgeting may result in the need for additional iterations of the synthesis and physical design flow, o… Show more
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