Overview
This workshop will familiarize you with the physical constraints that enable the strong DC-T correlation with physical tools. You will learn what the physical constraints are, how to load them into DC-T, how to view them, and how to verify they are complete and correct. This workshop covers typical flows (top-down, both with and without a floorplan, and bottom-up). It describes how the power and test flows fit into the DC-T flows. You will learn how to setup for, analyze, and handle congestion, using text reports to quantify the congestion, and using the GUI to qualify it. As part of the setup and run methodology, you will generate scripts using the Reference Methodology Script Generator (RMgen), and will adapt them to your design.

• Load the physical input files to DC-T and list the actions to be taken on them
• Configure and generate RMgen “seed scripts”, and adapt those scripts to their design
• Understand three frequently-used DC-T flows:
• Classic flat (top-down) with Power and Test with a floorplan
• Classic flat (top_down) with Power and Test without a floorplan
• Hierarchical (bottom-up)
• Use methodologies common to all flows
• Navigate the GUI to explore a floorplan
• Set up for the most accurate congestion analysis
• Analyze congestion using both text and GUI
• Recommend congestion fixes

Audience Profile
Engineers familiar with Design Compiler WLM (Design Compiler using wireload models).

Prerequisites
To benefit the most from the material presented in this workshop, students should:

OR

B. Be experienced with the basic use of Design Compiler:

• Set up and run
• Write Tcl scripts
• Analyze results

• Design Compiler Topographical 2009.06