Homework_5 -- Design, Verification and Installation of a Standard-height Cell

Revised 10/05/07 by D. Bouldin

Homework_2 described the procedure for the design and verification of a standard-height cell.


The cell must then be characterized to determine all of its timing delays between
its inputs and outputs. The procedure for characterization is given in these tutorials:

Library Characterization (html)

Cell Characterization (40 pages--pdf)

Next, the abstract view of the cell must be generated:



Layout-Abstract

Abstract Generation (12 pages--pdf)

Then, the databases for the place/route software and the synthesis tools can be updated.

Write a one-page summary of the three documents above and place it on your protected webpage.

(Only one page total, not three pages.)


Update hw.html

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