Detailed and precise hierarchical design planning is essential to achieving closure on large designs. In this article we describe a new hierarchical design flow and its usage on a 3 million-gate chip.

I'm getting a SAN for the main purpose of having my Hyper-V VHD files on shared storage and use clustering if one of my two physical servers goes down. I worked with the vendor who sold me my servers ...

In IC physical design, there is a tendency to focus on the synthesis and layout tasks, and to not give much consideration to the chip finishing tasks, at least not until the more pressing matters of ...