Boundary Cell Archives

Pre-placement Activities in Physical Design

February 6, 2021 by Team VLSI

In a broader sense, PnR (Place and Route) stage in physical design is basically Placement and Routing of all the instances present in the netlist in a defined core area in such a way that it should meet design rules and timing requirements. But before starting the actual automatic placement of instances by the PnR … Read more

End Cap Cells in VLSI | Boundary Cells in VLSI

May 16, 2022August 30, 2020 by Team VLSI

There are high chances to get damaged the gate of standard cells placed at the boundary during the manufacturing of chip. To prevent such damages at the boundary we have a special kind of cell in the standard cell library is called end cap cell or boundary cell. Boundary cell not only protects the gate … Read more