Physical synthesis optimizations and engineering change orders typically change the locations of cells, resize cells or add more cells to the design after global placement. Unfort...
Haoxing Ren, David Z. Pan, Charles J. Alpert, Gi-J...
Abstract-- SAT sweeping is the process of merging two or more functionally equivalent nodes in a circuit by selecting one of them to represent all the other equivalent nodes. This ...
Stephen Plaza, Kai-Hui Chang, Igor L. Markov, Vale...
This paper proposes Noise-Direct, a design methodology for power integrity aware floorplanning, using microarchitectural feedback to guide module placement. Stringent power constr...
Fayez Mohamood, Michael B. Healy, Sung Kyu Lim, Hs...
In this Paper, we describe the various low power techniques for mobile application SoCs based on the integrated platform "UniPhier". To minimize SoC power dissipation, h...
As integrated circuits manufacturing technology is advancing into 65nm and 45nm nodes, extensive resolution enhancement techniques (RETs) are needed to correctly manufacture a chip...
Liang Deng, Martin D. F. Wong, Kai-Yuan Chao, Hua ...