Atrenta, Inc.

Kshitiz Krishna

Ravi Varadarajan

Jitendra Kumar Gupta

Sanjiv Mathur

Anup Nagrath

Priyank Mittal

Kaushal Kishore Pathak

Ashima Dabare

Ritesh Mittal

System-on-chip (SoC) designs include large amounts of interconnected intellectual property blocks and standard-cell logic using complex bus fabrics. Today SoC design-closure that validates design targets of area, timing, congestion and power constraints is accomplished post routing as over 80% of validation problems are due to global-interconnect. A method is disclosed that allows the designers to achieve global design-closure and physical topology constraints, early in the design cycle, at much higher levels of abstraction. In particular, logic hierarchy of the design is converted into a physical hierarchy of functional-related clusters of locally-connected logic. The clusters and inter-cluster global connections can be refined to meet design constraints in order to generate a top-level floor-plan in the form of library and constraint files. Using the results of this top-down global design-closure method the designers can use the generated floor-plan to guide downstream tools to achieve predictable and correlatable design implementation.

Method of global design closure at top level and driving of downstream implementation flow

This invention provides a method for detecting physical implementation hot-spots in a pre-placement integrated circuit design. The method first identifies physical issues at an object level. Physical issues include timing, routing congestion, clocking, scan, power, and thermal. The method then analyzes these physical issues over a collection of connected logic cell and large cell instances and determines a physical implementation hot-spot severity based on the number and severity of physical issues as well as the number of objects in the related collection.

Efficient method to analyze RTL structures that cause physical implementation issues based on rule checking and overlap analysis

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Noida, India

Kshitiz Krishna