This paper presents a methodology to analyze signal integrity such as power voltage drop and clock skew in early stages of design, more specifically, when RTL-design and early flo...
One of the most challenging issues in today's high-performance VLSI design is to ensure high-quality power supply to each individual circuit blocks. Reduced power supply volt...
Pad assignment with signal integrity optimization is very important for high-speed VLSI design. In this paper, an efficient method is proposed to effectively minimize both simulta...
Voltage islands enable core-level power optimization for Systemon-Chip (SoC) designs by utilizing a unique supply voltage for each core. Architecting voltage islands involves isla...
Jingcao Hu, Youngsoo Shin, Nagu R. Dhanwada, Radu ...
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...