Download or read book Closing the Gap Between ASIC & Custom written by David Chinnery and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-06-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book carefully details design tools and techniques for high-performance ASIC design. Using these techniques, the performance of ASIC designs can be improved by two to three times. Important topics include: Improving performance through microarchitecture; Timing-driven floorplanning; Controlling and exploiting clock skew; High performance latch-based design in an ASIC methodology; Automatically identifying and synthesizing complex logic gates; Automated cell sizing to increase performance and reduce power; Controlling process variation.These techniques are illustrated by designs running two to three times the speed of typical ASICs in the same process generation.