- Advanced process technologies impose more significant challenges especially when manufactured circuits exhibit substantial process variations. Consideration of process variations...
Due to skewed scaling of interconnect delay and cell delay with technology scaling, modern VLSI timing closure requires use of extensive buffer insertion. Inserting a large number...
Tung-Chieh Chen, Ashutosh Chakraborty, David Z. Pa...
As the process technology advances into the deep submicron era, interconnect plays a dominant role in determining circuit performance. Buffer insertion/sizing and wire sizing are ...
Nicholas Chia-Yuan Chang, Yao-Wen Chang, Iris Hui-...
Congestion estimation is an important issue for the success of the VLSI layout. Fast congestion estimation provides an efficient means to adjust the placement and wire planning. A...
In many applications such as high-level synthesis (HLS) and logic synthesis and possibly engineering change order (ECO) we would like to get fast and accurate estimations of diffe...