COM SCI 258F
Physical Design Automation of VLSI Systems
Computer Science · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Detailed study of various physical design automation problems of VLSI circuits, including logic partitioning, floorplanning, placement, global routing, channel and switchbox routing, planar routing and via minimization, compaction and performance-driven layout. Discussion of applications of number of important optimization techniques, such as network flows, Steiner trees, simulated annealing, and generic algorithms.
Letter grading.
Requisites
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COM SCI 258F
- COM SCI 258HAnalysis and Design of High-Speed VLSI Interconnects
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