Automatic generation and evaluation of transistor networks in different logic styles / Geração automática e avaliação de redes de transistores em diferentes estilos lógicos
AUTOR(ES)
Leomar Soares da Rosa Junior
FONTE
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2008
RESUMO
Currently, VLSI design has established a dominant role in the electronics industry. Automated tools have enabled designers to manipulate more transistors on a design project and shorten the design cycle. In particular, logic synthesis tools have contributed significantly to reduce the design cycle time. In full-custom designs, manual generation of transistor netlists for each functional block is performed, but this is an extremely time-consuming task. In this sense, it becomes comfortable to have efficient algorithms to derive transistor networks automatically. There are several kinds of transistor networks arrangements. These different networks present different behaviors in terms of area, delay and power consumption. Thus, not only automatic transistor networks generation is important, but also an automated technique to evaluate and to compare the distinct switch networks is fundamental to guide designers that need to achieve efficient circuit implementations. This evaluation not necessarily needs to be an expensive electrical characterization process. It can be obtained through estimation processes capable of delivering good information about the logic cells behavior. This idea is useful for those designers that desire to generate and to evaluate potential transistor network implementations to feed standard-cell flow designs (using cell libraries), or for those designers who target the use of library-free technology mapping concept (using automatic cells generators). In this context, this work presents an automated transistor network generator able to delivery different kinds of networks in several logic styles. In order to compare the obtained networks, some estimation techniques are employed. A comparison is done over a set of Boolean function benchmarks, showing the advantages of using alternative logic styles over the traditional Complementary Series-Parallel CMOS (CSP CMOS).
ASSUNTO(S)
transistor networks microeletronica logic cells análise de redes technology mapping transistores circuitos elétricos switch theory cmos logic styles
