• DocumentCode
    742175
  • Title

    To Thread or Not to Thread

  • Author

    Hirsch, S. ; Finkler, U.

  • Author_Institution
    Syst. & Technol. Group, IBM Corp., Essex Junction, VT, USA
  • Volume
    30
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2013
  • Firstpage
    17
  • Lastpage
    25
  • Abstract
    The authors present a real-life industrial EDA problem; in particular, layout versus schematic checking. They describe why they chose threads to speed up their EDA tool.
  • Keywords
    electronic design automation; multi-threading; electronic design automation; industrial EDA problem; layout problem; schematic checking problem; threading approach; Data structures; Heuristic algorithms; Memory management; Message systems; Multithreading; Parallel processing; Program processors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Design & Test, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    2168-2356
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MDT.2012.2226012
  • Filename
    6338369