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
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