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ASPDAC
2005
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
Making fast buffer insertion even faster via approximation techniques
Abstract— As technology scales to 0.13 micron and below, designs are requiring buffers to be inserted on interconnects of even moderate length for both critical paths and fixing...
Zhuo Li, Cliff C. N. Sze, Charles J. Alpert, Jiang...
ICCAD
2001
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Minimum-Buffered Routing of Non-Critical Nets for Slew Rate and Reliability Control
In high-speed digital VLSI design, bounding the load capacitance at gate outputs is a well-known methodology to improve coupling noise immunity, reduce degradation of signal trans...
Charles J. Alpert, Andrew B. Kahng, Bao Liu, Ion I...
ISQED
2005
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Wire Planning with Bounded Over-the-Block Wires
Hierarchical approach greatly facilitates large-scale chip design by hiding distracting details in low-level objects. However, the lowlevel designs have to have a global view of h...
Hua Xiang, I-Min Liu, Martin D. F. Wong