Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE '98)
CMOS Combinational Circuit Sizing by Stage-wise Tapering
Paris, France
February 23-February 26
ISBN: 0-8186-8359-7
We describe a fast (linear time) procedure to optimally size transistors in a chain of multi-input gates/stages. The fast sizing is used in a simultaneous sizing and restructuring optimization procedure, to accurately predict relative optimal performance of alternative circuit structures for a given total area. The idea extends the concept of optimally sizing a buffer chain, and uses tapering constants based on the position of a stage in a circuit, and the position of a transistor in a stack.
Index Terms:
Transistor sizing, tapering, resynthesis
Citation:
Satyamurthy Pullela, Rajendran Panda, Abhijit Dharchoudhury, Gopal Vija, "CMOS Combinational Circuit Sizing by Stage-wise Tapering," date, pp.985, Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE '98), 1998