Fred W. Obermeier and Randy H. Katz

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-84-210

, 1984

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1984/CSD-84-210.pdf

Few integrated circuit design tools support the rapid exploration of the design space across performance alternatives. Such a tool must rely on extensive analysis of fundamental design issues, to provide the basis for this exploration. These detailed analyses are summarized as simple "rules-of-thumb." A more flexible class of design tools can use these to generate integrated circuit designs with more desirable performance. <p> This paper describes the detailed analysis of the PLA driver selecton problem. Rules-of-thumb which summarize these results, are developed and applied to a large CPU design project currently underway at Berkeley. A maximum critical driver delay improvement of 46.2% was realized.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Obermeier:CSD-84-210,
    Author= {Obermeier, Fred W. and Katz, Randy H.},
    Title= {PLA Driver Selection: An Analytic Approach},
    Year= {1984},
    Month= {Nov},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1984/5923.html},
    Number= {UCB/CSD-84-210},
    Abstract= {Few integrated circuit design tools support the rapid exploration of the design space across performance alternatives.  Such a tool must rely on extensive analysis of fundamental design issues, to provide the basis for this exploration.  These detailed analyses are summarized as simple "rules-of-thumb."  A more flexible class of design tools can use these to generate integrated circuit designs with more desirable performance.  <p>  This paper describes the detailed analysis of the PLA driver selecton problem. Rules-of-thumb which summarize these results, are developed and applied to a large CPU design project currently underway at Berkeley. A maximum critical driver delay improvement of 46.2% was realized.},
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Report
%A Obermeier, Fred W. 
%A Katz, Randy H. 
%T PLA Driver Selection: An Analytic Approach
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 1984
%@ UCB/CSD-84-210
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1984/5923.html
%F Obermeier:CSD-84-210