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The Silc silicon compiler: language and features

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Annual ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference archive
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference table of contents

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Pages: 232 - 237

Year of Publication: 1985

ISBN:0-8186-0635-5

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Timothy Blackman	GTE Laboratories Inc., 40 Sylvan Road, Waltham, MA
Jeffrey Fox	GTE Laboratories Inc., 40 Sylvan Road, Waltham, MA
Christopher Rosebrugh	GTE Laboratories Inc., 40 Sylvan Road, Waltham, MA

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SIGDA: ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

We describe the language and features of SilcTM, a new silicon compiler. SilcTM takes an algorithmic description of a circuit, performs logic synthesis, optimization, and physical layout synthesis, and produces a mask-level description. Special features of the compiler include multiple data path lengths, logic minimization, and asynchronously operating blocks. The focus of this paper is the input language.

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