% Digital circuit sizing (vectorized) % Boyd, Kim, Vandenberghe, and Hassibi, "A Tutorial on Geometric Programming" % Written for CVX by Almir Mutapcic 02/08/06 % (a figure is generated) % % Solves the problem of choosing gate scale factors x_i to give % minimum ckt delay, subject to limits on the total area and power. % % minimize D % s.t. P <= Pmax, A <= Amax % x >= 1 % % where variables are scale factors x. % % This code uses matrices in order to evaluate signal paths % through the circuit (thus, it uses vectorize Matlab features). % It is specific to the digital circuit shown in figure 4 (page 28) % of GP tutorial paper. % digital circuit shown in figure 4 (page 28) of GP tutorial paper m = 7; % number of cells n = 8; % number of edges A = sparse(m,n); % A is standard cell-edge incidence matrix of the circuit % A_ij = 1 if edge j comes out of cell i, -1 if it comes in, 0 otherwise A(1,1) = 1; A(2,2) = 1; A(2,3) = 1; A(3,4) = 1; A(3,8) = 1; A(4,1) = -1; A(4,2) = -1; A(4,5) = 1; A(4,6) = 1; A(5,3) = -1; A(5,4) = -1; A(5,7) = 1; A(6,5) = -1; A(7,6) = -1; A(7,7) = -1; A(7,8) = -1; % decompose A into edge outgoing and edge-incoming part Aout = double(A > 0); Ain = double(A < 0); % problem constants f = [1 0.8 1 0.7 0.7 0.5 0.5]'; e = [1 2 1 1.5 1.5 1 2]'; Cout6 = 10; Cout7 = 10; a = ones(m,1); alpha = ones(m,1); beta = ones(m,1); gamma = ones(m,1); % varying parameters for an optimal trade-off curve N = 20; Pmax = linspace(10,100,N); Amax = [25 50 100]; min_delay = zeros(length(Amax),N); disp('Generating the optimal tradeoff curve...') for k = 1:length(Amax) fprintf( 'Amax = %d:\n', Amax(k) ); for n = 1:N fprintf( ' Pmax = %6.2f: ', Pmax(n) ); cvx_begin gp quiet % optimization variables variable x(m) % scale factors variable t(m) % arrival times % objective is the upper bound on the overall delay % and that is the max of arrival times for output gates 6 and 7 minimize( max( t(6),t(7) ) ) subject to % input capacitance is an affine function of sizes cin = alpha + beta.*x; % load capacitance is the input capacitance times the fan-out matrix % given by Fout = Aout*Ain' cload = (Aout*Ain')*cin; cload(6) = Cout6; % load capacitance of the output gate 6 cload(7) = Cout7; % load capacitance of othe utput gate 7 % delay is the product of its driving resistance R = gamma./x and cload d = cload.*gamma./x; % power and area definitions power = (f.*e)'*x; area = a'*x; % scale size, power, and area constraints x >= 1; power <= Pmax(n); area <= Amax(k); % create timing constraints % these constraints enforce t_j + d_j <= t_i over all gates j that drive gate i Aout'*t + Ain'*d <= Ain'*t; % for gates with inputs not connected to other gates we enforce d_i <= t_i d(1:3) <= t(1:3); cvx_end fprintf( 'delay = %3.2f\n', cvx_optval ); min_delay(k,n) = cvx_optval; end end % plot the tradeoff curve plot(Pmax,min_delay(1,:), Pmax,min_delay(2,:), Pmax,min_delay(3,:)); xlabel('Pmax'); ylabel('Dmin'); disp('Optimal tradeoff curve plotted.')