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Closing the Gap Between ASIC & Custom - Tools and Techniques for High-Performance ASIC Design (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
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Closing the Gap Between ASIC & Custom - Tools and Techniques for High-Performance ASIC Design (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
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by Kurt Keutzer Those looking for a quick overview of the book
should fast-forward to the Introduction in Chapter 1. What follows
is a personal account of the creation of this book. The challenge
from Earl Killian, formerly an architect of the MIPS processors and
at that time Chief Architect at Tensilica, was to explain the
significant performance gap between ASICs and custom circuits
designed in the same process generation. The relevance of the
challenge was amplified shortly thereafter by Andy Bechtolsheim,
founder of Sun Microsystems and ubiquitous investor in the EDA
industry. At a dinner talk at the 1999 International Symposium on
Physical Design, Andy stated that the greatest near-term
opportunity in CAD was to develop tools to bring the performance of
ASIC circuits closer to that of custom designs. There seemed to be
some synchronicity that two individuals so different in concern and
character would be pre-occupied with the same problem. Intrigued by
Earl and Andy's comments, the game was afoot. Earl Killian and
other veterans of microprocessor design were helpful with clues as
to the sources of the performance discrepancy: layout, circuit
design, clocking methodology, and dynamic logic. I soon realized
that I needed help in tracking down clues. Only at a wonderful
institution like the University of California at Berkeley could I
so easily commandeer an ab- bodied graduate student like David
Chinnery with a knowledge of architecture, circuits, computer-aided
design and algorithms.
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