Method for designing minimal cost, timing correct hardware...

Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor – Nanotechnology related integrated circuit design

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ABSTRACT:
A method of considering circuit timing requirements during the circuit design process, comprising receiving a clock cycle-time constraint; receiving delay characteristics of hardware resources from a macrocell library; receiving an operation, an alternative clock cycle associated with said operation and an alternative hardware resource associated with said operation; and determining validity of the received alternative with respect to timing constraints using a hardware structural representation of the program graph.

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