Physical synthesis tools are responsible for achieving timing closure. Starting with 130nm designs, multiple cycles are required to cross the chip, making latch placement critical...
David A. Papa, Tao Luo, Michael D. Moffitt, Chin-N...
Timing-driven placement is a critical step in nanometerscale physical synthesis. To improve design timing on a global scale, net-weight based global timing-driven placement is a c...
Natarajan Viswanathan, Gi-Joon Nam, Jarrod A. Roy,...
Maintaining desired data availability while minimizing costs is the primary challenge in designing P2P storages. Data placement schemes and data availability calculation methods a...
Most recent embedded systems use caches to improve their average performance. Current timing analyses are able to compute safe timing guarantees for these systems, if tasks are ru...
—Multi-Vdd techniques enable application of lower supply voltage levels on cells with timing slacks. New voltage assignment, placement and voltage island partitioning methods are...