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2000
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DRAGON2000: Standard-Cell Placement Tool for Large Industry Circuits
In this paper, we develop a new standard cell placement tool, Dragon2000, to solve large scale placement problem effectively. A top-down hierarchical approach is used in Dragon200...
Maogang Wang, Xiaojian Yang, Majid Sarrafzadeh
ICCAD
2000
IEEE
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Deterministic Test Pattern Generation Techniques for Sequential Circuits
This paper presents new test generation techniques for improving the average-case performance of the iterative logic array based deterministic sequential circuit test generation a...
Ilker Hamzaoglu, Janak H. Patel
ICCAD
2000
IEEE
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A Timing-Constrained Algorithm for Simultaneous Global Routing of Multiple Nets
In this paper, we propose a new approach for VLSI interconnect global routing that can optimize both congestion and delay, which are often competing objectives. Our approach provi...
Jiang Hu, Sachin S. Sapatnekar
ICCAD
2000
IEEE
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Timing Driven Gate Duplication: Complexity Issues and Algorithms
This paper addresses the issue of timing driven gate duplication for delay optimization. Gate duplication has been used extensively for cutset minimization but the usefulness in m...
Ankur Srivastava, Ryan Kastner, Majid Sarrafzadeh
ICCAD
2000
IEEE
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Potential Slack: An Effective Metric of Combinational Circuit Performance
This paper proposes the concept of potential slack and show it is an effective metric of combinational circuit performance. We provide several methods for estimating potential sla...
Chunhong Chen, Xiaojian Yang, Majid Sarrafzadeh