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ISCAS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Abstract— Hierarchical design plays an important role in microprocessor and ASIC domains where design complexity limits design productivity and tool capacity. Slack distribution,...
VLSID
1998
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1998
IEEE
Emerging "systems-on-a-chip" will require a design environment that allows distributed access to libraries, models and design tools. In this paper we present a framework...
VLSID
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
Timing margin (slack) needs to be carefully managed to ensure a satisfactory timing yield. We propose a new design flow that combines a false-path-aware gate sizing and a statisti...
CASES
2003
ACM
2003
ACM
A hierarchical approach for energy efficient application design using heterogeneous embedded systems
13 years 8 months ago
Several features such as reconfiguration, voltage and frequency scaling, low-power operating states, duty-cycling, etc. are exploited for latency and energy efficient application ...
ICPP
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
Current VLSI technology allows more than two wiring layers and the number is expected to rise in future. In this paper, we show that, by designing VLSI layouts directly for an L-l...