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ISPD
2010
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
ITOP: integrating timing optimization within placement
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,...
DATE
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Incremental Criticality and Yield Gradients
— Criticality and yield gradients are two crucial diagnostic metrics obtained from Statistical Static Timing Analysis (SSTA). They provide valuable information to guide timing op...
Jinjun Xiong, Vladimir Zolotov, Chandu Visweswaria...
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
155views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
A flexibility aware budgeting for hierarchical flow timing closure
—In this paper, we present a new block budgeting algorithm which speeds up timing closure in timing driven hierarchical flows. After a brief description of the addressed flow, ...
Olivier Omedes, Michel Robert, Mohammed Ramdani
DAC
2005
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
How accurately can we model timing in a placement engine?
This paper presents a novel placement algorithm for timing optimization based on a new and powerful concept, which we term differential timing analysis. Recognizing that accurate ...
Amit Chowdhary, Karthik Rajagopal, Satish Venkates...
FPGA
2004
ACM
126views FPGA» more  FPGA 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
A synthesis oriented omniscient manual editor
The cost functions used to evaluate logic synthesis transformations for FPGAs are far removed from the final speed and routability determined after placement, routing and timing a...
Tomasz S. Czajkowski, Jonathan Rose