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METRICS:A System Architecture for Design Process Optimization
METRICS:A System Architecture for Design Process Optimization
Stephen Fenstermaker*, David George*, Andrew B. Kahng, Stefanus Mantik and
Bart Thielges*
UCLA CS Dept., Los Angeles, CA *OxSigen LLC, San Jose, CA
MotivationsMotivations
How do we improve design productivity ?
Does our design technology / capability yield better productivity than it did last year ?
How do we formally capture best known methods, and how do we identify them in the first place ?
Does our design environment support continuous improvement of the design process ?
Does our design environment support what-if / exploratory design ? Does it have early predictors of success / failure?
Currently, there are no standards or infrastructure for measuring and recording the semiconductor design process
Purpose of METRICSPurpose of METRICS
Standard infrastructure for the collection and the storage of design process information
Standard list of design metrics and process metrics
Analyses and reports that are useful for design process optimization
METRICS allows: Collect, Data-Mine, Measure, Diagnose, then Improve
Related WorksRelated Works
OxSigen LLC (Siemens 97-99)
Enterprise- and project-level metrics (“normalized transistors”) Numetrics Management Systems DPMS
Other in-house data collection systems e.g., TI (DAC 96 BOF)
Web-based design support IPSymphony, WELD, VELA, etc.
E-commerce infrastructure Toolwire, iAxess, etc.
Continuous process improvement
Data mining and visualization
OutlineOutline
Data collection process and potential benefits
METRICS system architecture
METRICS standards
Current implementation
Issues and conclusions
Potential Data Collection/DiagnosesPotential Data Collection/Diagnoses
What happened within the tool as it ran? what was CPU/memory/solution quality? what were the key attributes of the instance? what iterations/branches were made, under what conditions?
What else was occurring in the project? spec revisions, constraint and netlist changes, …
User performs same operation repeatedly with nearly identical inputs tool is not acting as expected solution quality is poor, and knobs are being twiddled
BenefitsBenefits
Benefits for project management accurate resource prediction at any point in design
cycle up front estimates for people, time, technology, EDA
licenses, IP re-use... accurate project post-mortems
everything tracked - tools, flows, users, notes no “loose”, random data left at project end
management console web-based, status-at-a-glance of tools, designs and
systems at any point in project
Benefits for tool R&D feedback on the tool usage and parameters used improve benchmarking
OutlineOutline
Data collection process and potential benefits
METRICS system architecture
METRICS standards
Current implementation
Issues and conclusions
METRICS System ArchitectureMETRICS System Architecture
Inter/Intra-net
DBMetrics Data Warehouse
WebServer
JavaApplets
DataMining
Reporting
Transmitter Transmitterwrapper
Tool Tool Tool
TransmitterAPI
XML
METRICS PerformanceMETRICS Performance
Transmitter low CPU overhead
multi-threads / processes – non-blocking scheme buffering – reduce number of transmissions
small memory footprint limited buffer size
Reporting web-based
platform and location independent dynamic report generation
always up-to-date
Example ReportsExample Reports
hen 95%
rat 1% bull 2%
donkey 2%
% aborted per machine
% aborted per task
BA 8%
ATPG 22%
synthesis 20%
physical18%
postSyntTA13%
placedTA7%
funcSim7%
LVS 5%
LVS convergencetime
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
LVS
%
88
90
92
94
96
98
100
Current ResultsCurrent Results
CPU_TIME = 12 + 0.027 NUM_CELLS (corr = 0.93)
More plots are accessible at http://xenon.cs.ucla.edu:8080/metrics
OutlineOutline
Data collection process and potential benefits
METRICS system architecture
METRICS standards
Current implementation
Issues and conclusions
METRICS StandardsMETRICS Standards
Standard metrics naming across tools same name same meaning, independent of tool
supplier generic metrics and tool-specific metrics no more ad hoc, incomparable log files
Standard schema for metrics database
Standard middleware for database interface
For complete current lists see:
http://vlsicad.cs.ucla.edu/GSRC/METRICS
Generic and Specific Tool MetricsGeneric and Specific Tool Metrics
tool_name stringtool_version stringtool_vendor stringcompiled_date mm/dd/yyyystart_time hh:mm:ssend_time hh:mm:sstool_user stringhost_name stringhost_id stringcpu_type stringos_name stringos_version stringcpu_time hh:mm:ss
Generic Tool Metricsnum_cells integernum_nets integerlayout_size doublerow_utilization doublewirelength doubleweighted_wl double
num_layers integernum_violations integernum_vias integerwirelength doublewrong-way_wl doublemax_congestion double
Placement Tool Metrics
Routing Tool Metrics
Partial list of metrics now being collected in Oracle8i
OutlineOutline
Data collection process and potential benefits
METRICS system architecture
METRICS standards
Current implementation
Issues and conclusions
Testbed I: Metricized P&R FlowTestbed I: Metricized P&R Flow
Placed DEF
QP ECO
Legal DEF
CongestionMap
WRoute
Capo Placer
Routed DEF
CongestionAnalysis
Incr. WRoute
Final DEF
METRICS
LEF
DEF
Testbed II: Metricized Cadence SLC FlowTestbed II: Metricized Cadence SLC Flow
DEF
Placed DEF
QP
Pearl
METRICS
QP Opt
CTGen
Incr.
Routed DEF
WRoute
Optimized DEF
LEFGCF,TLF
Clocked DEFConstraints
OutlineOutline
Data collection process and potential benefits
METRICS system architecture
METRICS standards
Current implementation
Issues and conclusions
ConclusionsConclusions
Current status complete prototype of METRICS system with Oracle8i, Java
Servlet, XML parser, and transmittal API library in C++ METRICS wrapper for Cadence and Cadence-UCLA flows,
front-end tools (Ambit BuildGates and NCSim) easiest proof of value: via use of regression suites
Issues for METRICS constituencies to solve security: proprietary and confidential information standardization: flow, terminology, data management, etc. social: “big brother”, collection of social metrics, etc.
Ongoing work with EDA, designer communities to identify tool metrics of interest users: metrics needed for design process insight,
optimization vendors: implementation of the metrics requested, with
standardized naming / semantics
http://vlsicad.cs.ucla.edu/GSRC/METRICS