FLOORPLAN ASSIGNMENT

NAME_________ SAP ID___________

1. What if you find some additional ports in your floor plan? From where you might have got
the additional ports and why they have been reported as additional.

2. Why do we do power planning before the placement of standard cells?

3. How do you decide the placement of macros and what precautions you take?

4. How the length and width of power rail affects the IR?

5. How do you validate your floorplan?

6. Calculate the power straps width and power ring width and number of straps

If core power consumption of the block is 5mw.

7. How do you deal with congestion caused by wrong floorplan? Explain your approach to fix
the floorplan
8. Why do we keep space between inner boundary and outer boundary of the block?
9. Can we place 7 track std cells 12 track std cells next to each other.
10. How do you decide the floorplan of the following? Justify the placement of each IP.

Macro analog
S1 S6

M1

S2 S7 Macro A1

S3 S8

M2
S4 S9
core
S5 S1
0
S1 S2 S6 and S9 are talking to M2
S4 S5 and S8 are talking to M1
M1 is talking to A1 and M2
M2 is talking to core and S7
A1 talking to S9 and S5