As feature sizes decrease and chip sizes increase, the area and performance of chips become dominated by the interconnect. In spite of this trend, most existing synthesis systems ...
Power consumption in field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has become an important issue as the FPGA market has grown to include mobile platforms. In this work we present a power...
This paper proposes a yield optimization method for standard-cells under timing constraints. Yield-aware logic synthesis and physical optimization require yield-enhanced standard ...
A fundamental problem in timing-driven physical synthesis is the reduction of critical paths in a design. In this work, we propose a powerful new technique that moves (and can als...
Michael D. Moffitt, David A. Papa, Zhuo Li, Charle...
Traditionally, rectilinear Steiner minimum trees (RSMT) are widely used for routing estimation in design optimizations like floorplanning and physical synthesis. Since it optimize...
Charles J. Alpert, Andrew B. Kahng, Cliff C. N. Sz...