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Designing for Performance
1/15/2004 6:01 PM EST
Designing for Performance
Process shrinks alone won't cut it
Designing with hard power constraints
Access, navigation are design keys to easy circuit editing
Using RTL floorplanning to budget nanometer designs
Non-linear effects in low-power sub-100nm designs
Design-for-manufacturing demands new infrastructure
Modeling in-die process variation with accuracy
Islands in the power management storm
Designers look to 90 nm, and beyond
The pursuit of performance once involved identifying paths with negative timing slack and crafting
them. But as designers move to 90-nanometer and finer processes, as some leading-edge design teams
will do this year, the scope of the problem widens. Performance is no longer just about static
timing. As the articles in this section reflect, it involves just about every aspect of the design
process, and demands the cooperation of both design teams and tool vendors.
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