Generating a convergent circuit design from a functional description using entities having access to the functional description and to physical design information

摘要

A method of designing a circuit is described. In an embodiment, a physical design implementation for the circuit is created using a plurality of entities. These entities are named “genomes”. Each entity includes a portion of a functional description of the circuit that has been synthesized into a gate-level implementation. An entity is selected to facilitate the physical design implementation meeting a plurality of design constraints. Several steps (e.g., beginning with selection of an entity) of this method are repeated several times to meet the design constraints. As a consequence, the physical design implementation provides more accurate information for use in a final physical design implementation. Moreover, the physical design implementation can be created faster than prior techniques while still allowing a global view of the physical design implementation in meeting design constraints.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
forming, by a computing system, multiple circuit design entities, each including a different set of gates in a gate-level implementation of an electronic system; determining, by the computing system, a physical layout for the circuit design entities based, at least in part, on characteristics of the sets of gates in the circuit design entities; and generating, by the computing system, a physical design implementation for the electronic system based, at least in part, on the physical layout for the circuit design entities.