Incorporating Bottom-Up Design into Hardware Synthesis
01 January 1990
This paper reports on a new method for using bottom-up design information in the synthesis of integrated circuits from abstract behavioral descriptions. There are two important ways in which this method differs from traditional top-down synthesis techniques. First, it draws on a newly developed procedural database to collect detailed information on the physical and logical properties of the primitives available for building the design. Second, it partitions each design it considers into clusters that have physical as well as logical significance.