The fine art of IC design

Designers of 100-million-transistor chips face daunting challenges, most especially in dealing with switching currents, optimization, asynchronization, reuse, and design skills. Certain subjects-interconnections, for example-will prove to cut across all five topics. All the same, the issues offer a...

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Published inIEEE spectrum Vol. 36; no. 7; pp. 30 - 34
Main Author Chappell, B.
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.07.1999
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Capacitors
Circuit noise
Current supplies
Dealing
Design
Handling
Integrated circuits
Materials handling
Optimization
Power dissipation
Power grids
Power supplies
Product design
Rails
Reuse
Semiconductor device modeling
Skills
Subspace constraints
Switching
Technological change
Transistors
Voltage
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Summary:Designers of 100-million-transistor chips face daunting challenges, most especially in dealing with switching currents, optimization, asynchronization, reuse, and design skills. Certain subjects-interconnections, for example-will prove to cut across all five topics. All the same, the issues offer a useful view on what designers will face in handling these complexities. These five topics are discussed in the paper.
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ISSN:0018-9235
1939-9340
DOI:10.1109/6.774962