fundamental milestone in the history of design implementation: ... wave of modern EDA companies and design ... P. Groeneveld, Magma Design Automation, US.
Panel and Embedded Tutorial – Logic Synthesis and Place and Route: After 20 Years of Engagement, Wedding in View? Organiser: M Casale-Rossi, Synopsys, US
Moderator: A Domic, Synopsys, US
Abstract--The first half of the 80’s marked a fundamental milestone in the history of design implementation: an amazing number of key research papers were published, in a relatively short period of time; suddenly, logic synthesis, placement, and routing algorithms reached a maturity level which enabled the birth of the first wave of modern EDA companies and design implementation tools: Silvar-Lisco, Cadence, Synopsys, Tangent…
EFPL Professor Giovanni De Micheli will describe where do we stand, why, and what are the hottest research topics. Synopsys’ Dr Antun Domic, will moderate a panel of university and industry experts who will discuss what new links are needed between logic synthesis and place & route, and whether a closer – exclusive ? – relationship is inevitable, or...
Some of them have disappeared, some others have been acquired, some are still standing out there, after 30 years and 15 silicon process’ technology nodes – we went from 3 microns and ~1K instances, to 22 nanometers and 100M instances, with timing and power progressively moving away from the gate into the wire. How have EDA companies and their tools adapted themselves to the change? What else can be done, moving forward?
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Panelists: G. De Micheli, EPF Lausanne, CH P. Groeneveld, Magma Design Automation, US H Hiller, Infineon, DE E Macii, Politecnico di Torino, IT P Magarshack, STMicroelectronics, FR