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The PI (Placement and Interconnect) System is a developmental technique for establishing custom VLSI chips. Designed and developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the mid-1980s, it is the first system to automate the entire layout process. VLSI Placement and Routing: The PI Project p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sherman, Alan T.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US, 1989.
Series:Texts and monographs in computer science.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Electronics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Introduction
  • Preliminaries
  • The Placement Framework
  • Chip Estimation and Pad Placement
  • Logic Placement
  • Power-Ground Routing
  • Signal Routing
  • Resizing
  • The MIT Implementation of PI
  • Related Layout Systems
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.