Standard-Cell Placement from Functional Descriptions

This paper presents a functional language for the unambiguous description of digital circuits,a me- thod and algorithms to obtain a standard-cell layout,and a comparative evaluation of the developed func- tional standard-cell placement technique.The presented placement scheme is different from traditional methods because the complete layout geometry is specified and constructed automatically from a function- al description.The construction relies on a translation that combines the simplicity of standard-cel…