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VLSID
2002
IEEE
136views VLSI» more  VLSID 2002»
14 years 5 months ago
Buffered Routing Tree Construction under Buffer Placement Blockages
Interconnect delay has become a critical factor in determining the performance of integrated circuits. Routing and buffering are powerful means of improving the circuit speed and ...
Wei Chen, Massoud Pedram, Premal Buch
ISPD
2009
ACM
141views Hardware» more  ISPD 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
A faster approximation scheme for timing driven minimum cost layer assignment
As VLSI technology moves to the 65nm node and beyond, interconnect delay greatly limits the circuit performance. As a critical component in interconnect synthesis, layer assignmen...
Shiyan Hu, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert
ISQED
2010
IEEE
227views Hardware» more  ISQED 2010»
13 years 12 months ago
Post-synthesis sleep transistor insertion for leakage power optimization in clock tree networks
Leakage power has grown significantly and is a major challenge in SoC design. Among SoC's components, clock distribution network power accounts for a large portion of chip po...
Houman Homayoun, Shahin Golshan, Eli Bozorgzadeh, ...
ICCAD
2008
IEEE
170views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
A polynomial time approximation scheme for timing constrained minimum cost layer assignment
Abstract— As VLSI technology enters the nanoscale regime, interconnect delay becomes the bottleneck of circuit performance. Compared to gate delays, wires are becoming increasing...
Shiyan Hu, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
90views Hardware» more  ICCAD 1997»
13 years 9 months ago
A hierarchical decomposition methodology for multistage clock circuits
† This paper describes a novel methodology to automate the design of the interconnect distribution for multistage clock circuits. We introduce two key ideas. First, a hierarchica...
Gary Ellis, Lawrence T. Pileggi, Rob A. Rutenbar