Abstract— Deep submicron technology scaling has two major ramifications on the design process. First, reduced feature size significantly increases wire delay, thus resulting in...
Milenko Drinic UCLA Computer Science Dep. 4732 Boelter Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596 milenko@cs.ucla.edu Darko Kirovski Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 da...
SoC design methodologies are under constant revision due to adoption of fast shrinking process technologies at nanometer levels. Nanometer process geometries exhibit new complex d...
R. Raghavendra Kumar, Ricky Bedi, Ramadas Rajagopa...
In high-speed digital VLSI design, bounding the load capacitance at gate outputs is a well-known methodology to improve coupling noise immunity, reduce degradation of signal trans...
Charles J. Alpert, Andrew B. Kahng, Bao Liu, Ion I...
In the context of physical synthesis, large-scale standard-cell placement algorithms must facilitate incremental changes to layout, both local and global. In particular, flexible ...
Saurabh N. Adya, Igor L. Markov, Paul G. Villarrub...