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HIDE

A Hurwitz Interconnect Delay Evaluation Package

Chung-Kuan Cheng, Xiao-Dong Yang, Zhanhai Qin

I. Introduction

The purpose of HIDE is to evaluate delays of an RLC interconnect tree very accurately and scale the original tree structure down to a set of equivalent, connected, and realizable p models.

The program features:

Delay evaluation with user-defined threshold;
Rise time evaluation with user-defined starting and end thresholds;
Waveform evaluation for user-defined test node(s);
Equivalent load generation for gate delay evaluation;
Hspice-formatted netlist generation for delay result verification;
Moment generation for each node.

II. Download HIDE and Documents

Deluxe Package (including source code, examples, user's and programmer's manuals)
User's Manual(ps , pdf ) and Programmer's Manual(ps , pdf )

III. Installation

1. Retrieve the deluxe package via the link above, then type

        'gzip -d HIDE.tar.gz'
        'tar xvf HIDE.tar'
    to build the following directory structure:

        HIDE/README this file
        HIDE/inc/ directory for Head file
        HIDE/src/ directory for C source code of HIDE routine
        HIDE/doc/ User's manual and Programmer's manual
        HIDE/bin/ directory for exectuable file
        HIDE/template directory for a template of input command file
        HIDE/OutputData directory for storing all the output data
        HIDE/HSPICE directory for storing generated Hspice netlist
        HIDE/example directory with a simple test case as example
2. Compile the source files by typing
        'cd src'
        'make '
     In HIDE/bin, we get a executable file: HIDE

3. In .cshrc file, pls set a path to access HIDE
4. Go to 'template' subdirectory to modify the input command file feasible to your applications
     ( please refer the manual in HIDE/doc/HIDE_User_Manual.pdf on how to set the options )
5. Run the program by typing
         'HIDE YourInputCommandFile'