An Artificial Intelligence Approach To Vlsi Routing

Author : R. Joobbani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461325552
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Artificial Intelligence Approach to VLSI Routing written by R. Joobbani and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routing of VLSI chips is an important, time consuming, and difficult problem. The difficulty of the problem is attributed to the large number of often conflicting factors that affect the routing quality. Traditional techniques have approached routing by ignoring some of these factors and imposing unnecessary constraints in order to make routing tractable. In addition to the imposition of these restrictions, which simplify the problems to a degree but at the same time reduce the routing quality, traditional approaches use brute force. They often transform the problem into mathematical or graph problems and completely ignore the specific knowledge about the routing task that can greatly help the solution. This thesis overcomes some of the above problems and presents a system that performs routing close to what human designers do. In other words it heavily capitalizes on the knowledge of human expertise in this area, it does not impose unnecessary constraints, it considers all the different factors that affect the routing quality, and most importantly it allows constant user interaction throughout the routing process. To achieve the above, this thesis presents background about some representative techniques for routing and summarizes their characteristics. It then studies in detail the different factors (such as minimum area, number of vias, wire length, etc.) that affect the routing quality, and the different criteria (such as vertical/horizontal constraint graph, merging, minimal rectilinear Steiner tree, etc.) that can be used to optimize these factors.

Author : Narinder Singh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146131979X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Test Generation written by Narinder Singh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am indebted to my thesis advisor, Michael Genesereth, for his guidance, inspiration, and support which has made this research possible. As a teacher and a sounding board for new ideas, Mike was extremely helpful in pointing out Haws, and suggesting new directions to explore. I would also like to thank Harold Brown for introducing me to the application of artificial intelligence to reasoning about designs, and his many valuable comments as a reader of this thesis. Significant contribu tions by the other members of my reading committee, Mark Horowitz, and Allen Peterson have greatly improved the content and organization of this thesis by forcing me to communicate my ideas more clearly. I am extremely grateful to the other members of the Logic Group at the Heuristic Programming Project for being a sounding board for my ideas, and providing useful comments. In particular, I would like to thank Matt Ginsberg, Vineet Singh, Devika Subramanian, Richard Trietel, Dave Smith, Jock Mackinlay, and Glenn Kramer for their pointed criticisms. This research was supported by Schlumberger Palo Alto Research (previously Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence). I am grateful to Peter Hart, the former head of the AI lab, and his successor Marty Tenenbaum for providing an excellent environment for performing this research.

Author : Carl Sechen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461316979
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book VLSI Placement and Global Routing Using Simulated Annealing written by Carl Sechen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From my B.E.E degree at the University of Minnesota and right through my S.M. degree at M.I.T., I had specialized in solid state devices and microelectronics. I made the decision to switch to computer-aided design (CAD) in 1981, only a year or so prior to the introduction of the simulated annealing algorithm by Scott Kirkpatrick, Dan Gelatt, and Mario Vecchi of the IBM Thomas 1. Watson Research Center. Because Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, my UC Berkeley advisor, had been a consultant at IBM, I re ceived a copy of the original IBM internal report on simulated annealing approximately the day of its release. Given my background in statistical mechanics and solid state physics, I was immediately impressed by this new combinatorial optimization technique. As Prof. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli had suggested I work in the areas of placement and routing, it was in these realms that I sought to explore this new algorithm. My flJ'St implementation of simulated annealing was for an island-style gate array placement problem. This work is presented in the Appendix of this book. I was quite struck by the effect of a nonzero temperature on what otherwise appears to be a random in terchange algorithm.

Author : Fumio Mizoguchi
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9784274075896
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AI Technology written by Fumio Mizoguchi and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Naveed A. Sherwani
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780780310896
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routing in the Third Dimension written by Naveed A. Sherwani and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This key text addresses the complex computer chips of tomorrow which will consist of several layers of metal interconnect, making the interconnect within a chip or a multichip module a three dimensional problem. You'll find an insightful approach to the algorithmic, cell design issues in chip and MCM routing with an emphasis on techniques for eliminating routing area.

Author : Sandeep Saini
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000523845
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book VLSI and Hardware Implementations using Modern Machine Learning Methods written by Sandeep Saini and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine learning is a potential solution to resolve bottleneck issues in VLSI via optimizing tasks in the design process. This book aims to provide the latest machine-learning–based methods, algorithms, architectures, and frameworks designed for VLSI design. The focus is on digital, analog, and mixed-signal design techniques, device modeling, physical design, hardware implementation, testability, reconfigurable design, synthesis and verification, and related areas. Chapters include case studies as well as novel research ideas in the given field. Overall, the book provides practical implementations of VLSI design, IC design, and hardware realization using machine learning techniques. Features: Provides the details of state-of-the-art machine learning methods used in VLSI design Discusses hardware implementation and device modeling pertaining to machine learning algorithms Explores machine learning for various VLSI architectures and reconfigurable computing Illustrates the latest techniques for device size and feature optimization Highlights the latest case studies and reviews of the methods used for hardware implementation This book is aimed at researchers, professionals, and graduate students in VLSI, machine learning, electrical and electronic engineering, computer engineering, and hardware systems.

Author : Naveed A. Sherwani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 030647509X
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation written by Naveed A. Sherwani and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation, Third Edition covers all aspects of physical design. The book is a core reference for graduate students and CAD professionals. For students, concepts and algorithms are presented in an intuitive manner. For CAD professionals, the material presents a balance of theory and practice. An extensive bibliography is provided which is useful for finding advanced material on a topic. At the end of each chapter, exercises are provided, which range in complexity from simple to research level. Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation, Third Edition provides a comprehensive background in the principles and algorithms of VLSI physical design. The goal of this book is to serve as a basis for the development of introductory-level graduate courses in VLSI physical design automation. It provides self-contained material for teaching and learning algorithms of physical design. All algorithms which are considered basic have been included, and are presented in an intuitive manner. Yet, at the same time, enough detail is provided so that readers can actually implement the algorithms given in the text and use them. The first three chapters provide the background material, while the focus of each chapter of the rest of the book is on each phase of the physical design cycle. In addition, newer topics such as physical design automation of FPGAs and MCMs have been included. The basic purpose of the third edition is to investigate the new challenges presented by interconnect and process innovations. In 1995 when the second edition of this book was prepared, a six-layer process and 15 million transistor microprocessors were in advanced stages of design. In 1998, six metal process and 20 million transistor designs are in production. Two new chapters have been added and new material has been included in almost allother chapters. A new chapter on process innovation and its impact on physical design has been added. Another focus of the third edition is to promote use of the Internet as a resource, so wherever possible URLs have been provided for further investigation. Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation, Third Edition is an important core reference work for professionals as well as an advanced level textbook for students.

Author : Edmund H. Durfee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461316995
Total Pages : 278 pages
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Download or read book Coordination of Distributed Problem Solvers written by Edmund H. Durfee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As artificial intelligence (AI) is applied to more complex problems and a wider set of applications, the ability to take advantage of the computational power of distributed and parallel hardware architectures and to match these architec tures with the inherent distributed aspects of applications (spatial, functional, or temporal) has become an important research issue. Out of these research concerns, an AI subdiscipline called distributed problem solving has emerged. Distributed problem-solving systems are broadly defined as loosely-coupled, distributed networks of semi-autonomous problem-solving agents that perform sophisticated problem solving and cooperatively interact to solve problems. N odes operate asynchronously and in parallel with limited internode commu nication. Limited internode communication stems from either inherent band width limitations of the communication medium or from the high computa tional cost of packaging and assimilating information to be sent and received among agents. Structuring network problem solving to deal with consequences oflimited communication-the lack of a global view and the possibility that the individual agents may not have all the information necessary to accurately and completely solve their subproblems-is one of the major focuses of distributed problem-solving research. It is this focus that also is one of the important dis tinguishing characteristics of distributed problem-solving research that sets it apart from previous research in AI.

Author : Rolf Drechsler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475728662
Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book Evolutionary Algorithms for VLSI CAD written by Rolf Drechsler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In VLSI CAD, difficult optimization problems have to be solved on a constant basis. Various optimization techniques have been proposed in the past. While some of these methods have been shown to work well in applications and have become somewhat established over the years, other techniques have been ignored. Recently, there has been a growing interest in optimization algorithms based on principles observed in nature, termed Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs). Evolutionary Algorithms in VLSI CAD presents the basic concepts of EAs, and considers the application of EAs in VLSI CAD. It is the first book to show how EAs could be used to improve IC design tools and processes. Several successful applications from different areas of circuit design, like logic synthesis, mapping and testing, are described in detail. Evolutionary Algorithms in VLSI CAD consists of two parts. The first part discusses basic principles of EAs and provides some easy-to-understand examples. Furthermore, a theoretical model for multi-objective optimization is presented. In the second part a software implementation of EAs is supplied together with detailed descriptions of several EA applications. These applications cover a wide range of VLSI CAD, and different methods for using EAs are described. Evolutionary Algorithms in VLSI CAD is intended for CAD developers and researchers as well as those working in evolutionary algorithms and techniques supporting modern design tools and processes.

Author : Dipankar Dasgupta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662034239
Total Pages : 561 pages
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Download or read book Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Applications written by Dipankar Dasgupta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary algorithms are general-purpose search procedures based on the mechanisms of natural selection and population genetics. They are appealing because they are simple, easy to interface, and easy to extend. This volume is concerned with applications of evolutionary algorithms and associated strategies in engineering. It will be useful for engineers, designers, developers, and researchers in any scientific discipline interested in the applications of evolutionary algorithms. The volume consists of five parts, each with four or five chapters. The topics are chosen to emphasize application areas in different fields of engineering. Each chapter can be used for self-study or as a reference by practitioners to help them apply evolutionary algorithms to problems in their engineering domains.