PLA Driver Selection: An Analytic Approach
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.
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