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ISQED
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Active decap design considerations for optimal supply noise reduction
Active decoupling capacitors (decaps) are more effective than passive decaps at reducing local IR-drop problems in the power distribution network. In the basic active decap, two p...
Xiongfei Meng, Resve A. Saleh
ISCAS
2007
IEEE
110views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
A Novel Active Decoupling Capacitor Design in 90nm CMOS
—On-chip decoupling capacitors (decaps) are generally used to reduce power supply noise. Passive decap designs are reaching their limits in 90nm CMOS technology due to higher ope...
Xiongfei Meng, Karim Arabi, Resve Saleh
ICCD
2006
IEEE
183views Hardware» more  ICCD 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
An Active Decoupling Capacitance Circuit for Inductive Noise Suppression in Power Supply Networks
The placement of on-die decoupling capacitors (decap) between the power and ground supply grids has become a common practice in high performance processor designs. In this paper, ...
Sanjay Pant, David Blaauw
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
89views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2009»
13 years 2 months ago
Decoupling capacitance efficient placement for reducing transient power supply noise
Decoupling capacitance (decap) is an efficient way to reduce transient noise in on-chip power supply networks. However, excessive decap may cause more leakage power, chip resource...
Xiaoyi Wang, Yici Cai, Qiang Zhou, Sheldon X.-D. T...
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
108views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2007»
13 years 8 months ago
Noise-Direct: A Technique for Power Supply Noise Aware Floorplanning Using Microarchitecture Profiling
This paper proposes Noise-Direct, a design methodology for power integrity aware floorplanning, using microarchitectural feedback to guide module placement. Stringent power constr...
Fayez Mohamood, Michael B. Healy, Sung Kyu Lim, Hs...