Title :
On Robustness of EDA Tools
Author :
Schmidt, J. ; Fier, Petr ; Balcarek, Jiri
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Inf. Technol., Czech Tech. Univ. in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Abstract :
It is known that EDA tools produce results of different quality dependent on seemingly neutral details in the input. We bring further results in this direction, which show that the differences can impair any quantitative comparisons of the tools. To gain qualitative insight, we present a stochastic model of result quality based on Gaussian Mixtures. We show on three case studies how these models help to evaluate and improve EDA algorithms.
Keywords :
Gaussian processes; electronic design automation; logic CAD; mixture models; EDA algorithms; EDA tools; Gaussian mixtures; stochastic model; Benchmark testing; Histograms; Integrated circuit modeling; Logic gates; Robustness; Table lookup; Vectors; logic synthesis; randomness; robustness; stochastic models;
Conference_Titel :
Digital System Design (DSD), 2014 17th Euromicro Conference on
Conference_Location :
Verona
DOI :
10.1109/DSD.2014.22
