TSUNAMI: An Integrated Timing-Driven Place And Route Research Platform

Christophe Alexandre (1) , Hugo Clément (1) , Jean-Paul Chaput (2) , Marek Sroka (1) , Christian Masson , Remy Escassut

1 CIAN - Circuits Intégrés Numériques et Analogiques
2 LIP6 - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6

In this paper, we present an experimental integrated platform for the research, development and evaluation of new VLSI back-end algorithms and design flows. Interconnect scaling to nanometer processes presents many difficult challenges to CAD flows. Academic research on back-end mostly focuses on specific algorithmic issues separately. However one key issue to address also is the cooperation of multiple algorithmic tools. TSUNAMI, our platform, is based on an integrated C++ database around which all tools consistently interact and collaborate. Above this platform a fixed die standard cell timing-driven placement and global routing flow has been developed.

Domaines: Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Electronique

Christophe Alexandre, Hugo Clément, Jean-Paul Chaput, Marek Sroka, Christian Masson, et al.. TSUNAMI: An Integrated Timing-Driven Place And Route Research Platform. DATE 2005 - Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference, Mar 2005, Munich, Germany. pp.920-921, ⟨10.1109/DATE.2005.317⟩. ⟨hal-00181236⟩