Detailed and precise hierarchical design planning is essential to achieving closure on large designs. In this article we describe a new hierarchical design flow and its usage on a 3 million-gate chip.

As the Semiconductor industry continues to march down the road to ever smaller geometries, one has to question at what point the current design methodologies and paradigms will break. Or maybe, more ...

The FICS Research Institute (University of Florida) has published a new research paper titled “Secure Physical Design.” This is the first and most comprehensive research work done in this area that ...

A new technical paper titled “Omni 3D: BEOL-Compatible 3D Logic with Omnipresent Power, Signal, and Clock” was published by researchers at Stanford University, Intel Corporation, and Carnegie Mellon ...