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Motivation
•Context:
High-speed circuit designs, how?
•Push-button
design flow
–Automatic:
design -> circuit
–0.18 mm, struggling to
achieve 150MHz+
•Von
Herzen’s paper [VonH97]
–250MHz FPGA, 0.6mm in 1997!
•Useful
“Event Horizon” concept (later)
•EVE: EVent horizon Editor