Inactive-Withdrawn Standard

IEEE 1603-2003

IEEE Standard for an Advanced Library Format (ALF) Describing Integrated Circuit (IC) Technology, Cells, and Blocks

Superseded by IEC/IEEE 62265-2005. ALF shall serve as the data specification language of library elements for design applications used to implement integrated circuits. The range of abstraction shall include from the register-transfer level (RTL) to the physical level. The language shall model behavior, timing, power, signal integrity, physical abstraction and physical implementation rules of library elements. The purpose of ALF is to provide a modeling language and semantics for functional, physical and electrical performance description of technology-specific libraries for cell-based and block-based design. Without a standard, design implementation tools would use multiple proprietary and tool-specific library descriptions. The semantics would be defined by tool implementations only, which are subject to change and prone to mis- interpretation. Also there would be redundancy using multiple descriptions for similar library aspects. Therefore a standard is proposed to create a consistent library view suitable as a reference for all design implementation applications.

Sponsor Committee
C/DA - Design Automation
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Status
Inactive-Withdrawn Standard
PAR Approval
2001-08-17
Board Approval
2003-09-11
History
Withdrawn:
2010-01-09
ANSI Approved:
2003-12-29
Published:
2004-02-20

Working Group Details

Society
IEEE Computer Society
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Sponsor Committee
C/DA - Design Automation
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Working Group
ALF_WG - Advanced Library Format Working Group
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Vanessa Lalitte
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Working Group Chair
Wolfgang Roethig

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