A multi-celled chip. The chip includes a plurality of hexagonal cells arranged in an array. A plurality of interconnects including Y's connect the cells in clusters of three cells each, so that each of the cells is interconnected.
Techniques are described for performing analysis of circuits with nonlinear circuit components such as transistors based on a two-stage Newton-Raphson approach.
An EDA tool is provided with a placement and routing (P&R) module that optimizes placement and routing of an IC design in an interconnect delay driven manner. The P&R module systematically determines if it can improve (i.e. reduce) interconnect delay of the current critical interconnect
An EDA tool is provided with a floorplan generator to automatically generate an optimized floorplan for an IC design having a number of design blocks. The floorplanner generates an initial O-tree representation for the design blocks. The floorplanner then perturbs the O-tree represen
