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 # A Modular Digital VLSI Flow for High-Productivity SoC Design

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 A high-productivity digital VLSI flow for designing complex SoCs is presented. The flow includes high-level synthesis tools, an object-oriented library of synthesizable SystemC and C++ components, and a modular VLSI physical design approach based on fine-grained globally asynchronous locally synchronous (GALS) clocking. The flow was demonstrated on a 16nm FinFET testchip targeting machine learning and computer vision.



 ## Authors



[Brucek Khailany](/person/brucek-khailany)

Evgeni Krimer (NVIDIA)

[Rangharajan Venkatesan](/person/rangharajan-venkatesan)

[Jason Clemons](/person/jason-clemons)

[Joel Emer](/person/joel-emer)

[Matt Fojtik](/person/matt-fojtik)

Alicia Klinefelter (NVIDIA)

[Michael Pellauer](/person/michael-pellauer)

[Nathaniel Pinckney](/person/nathaniel-pinckney)

Sophia Shao (NVIDIA)

Shreesha Srinath (Cornell)

Christopher Torng (Cornell)

Sam (Likun) Xi (Harvard)

[Yanqing Zhang](/person/yanqing-zhang)

[Brian Zimmer](/person/brian-zimmer)

 

 

 ## Publication Date



Sunday, June 24, 2018

 

 ## Published in



[Design Automation Conference (DAC)](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3195970.3199846)

 

 ## Research Area



[Circuits and VLSI Design](/research-area/circuits)

[Computer Architecture](/research-area/computer-architecture)

 

 

 ## External Links



[ACM Digital Library](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3195970.3199846)

 

 

 ## Uploaded Files



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 ## Copyright



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