A Whole World of Circuitry - Visualizing Integrated Circuits using Geo Information Systems

Abstract

Circuit visualisation is crucial to get an overview of the results of hardware synthesisprocesses. However, visualisation tools are often old, tailored to specific use cases and generallyhave to deal with the issue of extremely large datasets while providing a smooth and interactiveuser experience. In order to provide a smooth user experience and smooth learning curve forarbitrarily large circuits, this paper introduces an approach that utilizes workflows and tools fromthe geoinformation systems community, bridging the gap between integrated circuit synthesistools and state-of-the-art visualisation tools for large georeferenced datasets.