Anatomy of a Silicon Compiler

1 Introduction and History.- 1.1. What is Lager.- 1.2. Users vs. Developers.- 1.3. History.- 1.4. Assembly vs. Behavioral synthesis.- 1.5. Book Organization.- I Framework and Design Entry.- 2 The OCT Data Manager.- 2.1. Basic Structure.- 2.2. Policy Versus Mechanism.- 2.3. The OCT Objects.- 2.4. The OCT Procedural Interface.- 2.5. OCT Physical Policy.- 2.6. OCT Symbolic Policy.- 2.7. Summary.- 3 Lager OCT Policy and the SDL Language.- 3.1. Lager Policies.- 3.2. The Structure_Master View and the SDL Language.- 3.3. The Structure_Instance View.- 3.4. The Physical View.- 3.5. Summary.- 4 Schematic Entry.- 4.1. Schematic Tool Interface.- 4.2. Design Examples.- 4.3. Summary.- 5 Design Management.- 5.1. Parameterization and Library Support.- 5.2. The Design Flow Strategy.- 5.3. Controlling the Design Flow.- 5.4. The Design Management Strategy.- 5.5. Summary.- 6 Design Post-Processing.- 6.1. Capabilities.- 6.2. The Post Processing Tools.- 6.3. Runtime Operation.- 6.4. Summary.- II Silicon Assembly.- 7 Hierarchical Tiling.- 8 Standard Cell Design.- 9 Interactive Floorplanning.- 10 Datapath Generation.- 11 Pad Routing.- III Verification and Testing.- 12 Design Verification.- 13 Behavior and Switch Level Simulation.- 14 Chip and Board Testing.- IV Behavioral Synthesis.- 15 DSP Specification Using the Silage Language.- 16 Synthesis of Datapath Architectures.- 17 From C to Silicon.- 18 An FIR Filter Generator.- V Applications.- 19 The PUMA Processor.- 20 Radon Transform Using the PPPE.- 21 Speech Recognition.- 22 Conclusions and Future Work.- Appendix a Design Example.- A.1. Running Dmoct to Generate a Design.- A.2. Design Post-Processing with Dmpost.- Appendix B Training and Distribution.- B.1. Training.- B.2. Lager Distribution.