Physical Design Essentials

Physical Design Essentials-An ASIC Design Implementation Perspective¹

This book describes why domain of physical design is needed, provide the basic concepts for physical design.

•  Basic standard cell design, transistor sizing, and layout styles
•  Linear, nonlinear, and polynomial characterization
•  Physical design constraints and floorplanning styles
•  Algorithms used for placement
•  Clock Tree Synthesis
•  Algorithms used for global and detailed routing
•  Parasitic extraction
•  Functional, timing, and physical methods of verification
•  Functional, scan, parametric, memory and parallel module test

1. Golshan, Khosrow. Physical design essentials. Springer Science+ Business Media, LLC, 2007.978-0-387-46115-1.pdf[↩]