Performance Driven Synthesis of Digital Systems
Ireneusz Karkowski · 1995
Contents Preface 1 1 Overview of Automatic Circuit Synthesis Systems 9 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.2 A historic perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.3 Selected systems overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2 Delay Models and Design Trade-offs 21 2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 2.2 Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 2.3 Delay model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 2.4 The "high C" circuits - design trade-offs example . . . . . . . . . 32 2.5 Other examples of design trade-offs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 2.6 Imprecision of circuit delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 3 Mathematical programming methods overview 55 3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 3.2 Integer programming