Increasingly significant power/ground supply voltage degradation in nanometer VLSI designs leads to system performance degradation and even malfunction. Existing techniques focus...
APlace is a high quality, scalable analytical placer. This paper describes our recent efforts to improve APlace for speed and scalability. We explore various wirelength and densi...
Multiple supply voltage (MSV) is one of the most effective schemes to achieve low power, but most works are based on logic level. A few recent works are based on physical level but...
Liangpeng Guo, Yici Cai, Qiang Zhou, Xianlong Hong
With aggressive gate oxide scaling, latent defects in the gate oxide manifest as traps that, in time, lead to gate oxide breakdown. Progressive gate oxide breakdown, also referred...
—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...