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pjayasekharan
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10/15/2007 8:55 AM  
have anyone seen any area savings using rc-physical approach , compared to 0 wlm approach. we generally use 0 wlm in synthesis to get best area. I know its far easier to close timing with rc-phys approach, but my interest is in final area.--thanks
grasshopper
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10/16/2007 6:26 AM  
Hi pjayasekharan,

In my humble opinion ZWL as a means to minimal FINAL area is fundamentally flawed. The problem is it fails to account for one of the biggest problems in <100nm technologies and that is the wires. We have used ZWL as a good means to get a bound on lowest possible area and perform trade-off analysis but using ZWL for our netlist can lead to unexpected area blowups due to the issues that come up when the effect of the wires is added. The netlist as a result of ZWL synthesis could have all the wrong architectures selected. As I understand it, RC Physical will help you better address the physical issues that ZWL and WL synthesis in general fail to identify and as a result you should end up with better prediction and better final QoR. To me it only make sense that a tool that better identifies all issues will produce better FINAL results. I am curious to hear you experience if you decide to try and can share

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