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INTEGRATION
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
SafeResynth: A new technique for physical synthesis
Physical synthesis is a relatively young field in Electronic Design Automation. Many published optimizations for physical synthesis end up hurting the quality of the final design,...
Kai-Hui Chang, Igor L. Markov, Valeria Bertacco
ISLPED
2003
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Power efficient comparators for long arguments in superscalar processors
Traditional pulldown comparators that are used to implement associativeaddressing logic in superscalar microprocessors dissipate energy on a mismatch in any bit position in the co...
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Oguz Ergin, Kanad ...
ISPD
2004
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Performance-driven register insertion in placement
As the CMOS technology is scaled into the dimension of nanometer, the clock frequencies and die sizes of ICs are shown to be increasing steadily [5]. Today, global wires that requ...
Dennis K. Y. Tong, Evangeline F. Y. Young
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Toward a methodology for manufacturability-driven design rule exploration
Resolution enhancement techniques (RET) such as optical proximity correction (OPC) and phase-shift mask (PSM) technology are deployed in modern processes to increase the fidelity ...
Luigi Capodieci, Puneet Gupta, Andrew B. Kahng, De...
HPCA
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
BulletProof: a defect-tolerant CMP switch architecture
As silicon technologies move into the nanometer regime, transistor reliability is expected to wane as devices become subject to extreme process variation, particle-induced transie...
Kypros Constantinides, Stephen Plaza, Jason A. Blo...