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ASPDAC
2004
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Complexity analysis and speedup techniques for optimal buffer insertion with minimum cost
As gate delays decrease faster than wire delays for each technology generation, buffer insertion becomes a popular method to reduce the interconnect delay. Several modern buffer in...
Weiping Shi, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A fully polynomial time approximation scheme for timing driven minimum cost buffer insertion
As VLSI technology enters the nanoscale regime, interconnect delay has become the bottleneck of the circuit timing. As one of the most powerful techniques for interconnect optimiz...
Shiyan Hu, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Fast algorithms for slew constrained minimum cost buffering
As a prevalent constraint, sharp slew rate is often required in circuit design which causes a huge demand for buffering resources. This problem requires ultra-fast buffering techn...
Shiyan Hu, Charles J. Alpert, Jiang Hu, Shrirang K...
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Power optimal dual-Vdd buffered tree considering buffer stations and blockages
This paper presents the first in-depth study on applying dual Vdd buffers to buffer insertion and multi-sink buffered tree construction for power minimization under delay constrai...
King Ho Tam, Lei He
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
An optimal simultaneous diode/jumper insertion algorithm for antenna fixing
As technology enters the nanometer territory, the antenna effect plays an important role in determining the yield and reliability of a VLSI circuit. Diode insertion and jumper in...
Zhe-Wei Jiang, Yao-Wen Chang