With rising SoC design complexity, hierarchical backend design closure has become almost ubiquitous across the industry. Block and sub-block partitioning allow designers to exploit engineering and ...

Analog IC design is a very challenging task as essential information is missing in the early design stages. Because the simulation of larger designs is exceedingly computationally expensive at lower ...

Large, complex SoC designs require hierarchical layout methodologies that span multiple levels of physical hierarchy. Many EDA tools only handle two levels of physical hierarchy at a given time ...