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An Improved VLSI Test Economics Analysis System - Laboratory for ...

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Gate Area Ratio (gar): Average gate area ratio is used <strong>for</strong> conversion of gate count intogate area. The exact value of gar depends on the manufacturing process and theimplementation methodologies. For examples: the gar of :6 process has higherthan that of :8 process. Also, full custom, cell base, gate array, PAL, and FPGAdesign have dierent gate area ratios.Net Area Ratio (nar): Average net area ratio is used <strong>for</strong> conversion of the member of netsinto routing area. It means the average area of each net in block. The nar dependson the manufacturing process, implementation methodologies and the eciency ofrouting tools.Block Area (a): Block area including gate area and net area can be expressed as:a = g gar + n nar: (2.2)Chip Complexity (,): Chip complexity represents the eort to integrate blocks into chip.Consider a graph consist of n nodes, if all nodes must connect to each other, themaximal links is (n,1)!. The upper bound of connection complexity is proportionalto it. However, not all nodes need to connect to each other, since some interfacestructures such as bus greatly reduce the complexity. Block's I/O count and howsignals transmit among blocks also aect complexity.Gate Count of Chip (G): Gate count of chip includes block gates and interface circuits betweenblocks. The gate count of interface circuit is proportional to chip complexity(,). Thus, this parameters can be given byG =X<strong>for</strong> all blocksg + G ,; (2.3)where G is the parameters which converts chip complexity into interface circuitsgate count. If estimation omits interface circuits, gate count can be calculated asG =Xeach blockg: (2.4)11

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