资料介绍
This book begins with tantalizing question: Why are custom circuits so
much faster than application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)? Given the
human effort put into designing circuits in a custom methodology it is not
surprising that custom circuits are faster than their ASIC counterparts; it is
surprising that they are routinely 5 to 8 times faster when fabricated in the
same processing generation. The first aim of this book is to explain this
disparity in performance.
Our second aim is to understand practical ways in which the performance
gap between ASICs and custom circuits can be bridged. For each factor in
which custom circuits are routinely faster we examine tools and techniques
that can help ASICs achieve higher performance