: Over the years, many design methodologies/tools and layout architectures have been developed for datapath-oriented designs. One commonly used approach for high-speed datapath des...
Jennifer Y.-L. Lo, Wu-An Kuo, Allen C.-H. Wu, Ting...
Many current integrated circuits designs, such as those released for the ISPD2005[14] placement contest, are extremely large and can contain a great deal of white space. These new...
Abstract--To reduce chip-scale topography variation in Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process, dummy fill is widely used to improve the layout density uniformity. Previous res...
Chunyang Feng, Hai Zhou, Changhao Yan, Jun Tao, Xu...
Abstract— John von Neumann proposed his famous architecture in a context where hardware was very expensive and bulky. His goal was to maximize functionality with minimal hardware...
Etienne Bergeron, Xavier Saint-Mleux, Marc Feeley,...
This paper describes a new design methodology to analyze the on-chip power supply noise for high performance microprocessors. Based on an integrated package-level and chip-level p...