elGen: ferramenta para geração de circuitos combinatórios e sequenciais para benchmark

Abstract

Sets of benchmark circuits are very important mechanisms as guides in the selection of tools in electronic design automation (EDA). Given the wide diversity of studies in the field of electronic design automation, and a wide variety of commercial tools in each area, there is an increasing need for additional circuitry to be used as benchmarks. Still, as the scale of integration of circuits has grown rapidly over the years, benchmarks quickly become inadequate/obsolete. There are basically two main sets of ratings for the benchmark circuits in EDA, according to the type of project: Circuits of industrial projects and projects of synthetic circuits. Both classes alone are not sufficient to supply demand of benchmarks. An alternative approach is to mix between the two classes, resulting in the generation of synthetic circuits based designs often used in semiconductor industries. We describe the definition and construction of a software tool for generating logic-arithmetic hardware circuits based in models and used as benchmarks for circuitry in EDA tools. In order to generate the circuit, is used the mixed approach between the classes of circuits based on synthetic and industrial projects.