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ASPDAC
2005
ACM
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The polygonal contraction heuristic for rectilinear Steiner tree construction
— Motivated by VLSI/ULSI routing applications, we present a heuristic for rectilinear Steiner minimal tree (RSMT) construction. We transform a rectilinear minimum spanning tree (...
Yin Wang, Xianlong Hong, Tong Jing, Yang Yang, Xia...
ASPDAC
2005
ACM
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Skew scheduling and clock routing for improved tolerance to process variations
The synthesis of clock network in the presence of process variation is becoming a vital design issue towards the performance of digital circuits. In this paper, we propose a clock ...
Ganesh Venkataraman, Cliff C. N. Sze, Jiang Hu
ASPDAC
2005
ACM
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Stability analysis of active clock deskewing systems using a control theoretic approach
— In this paper, a methodology for analyzing closed loop clock distribution and active deskewing networks is proposed. An active clock distribution and deskewing network is model...
Vinil Varghese, Tom Chen, Peter Young
ASPDAC
2005
ACM
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Return path selection for loop RL extraction
— This paper propose a systematic method to select power/ground wires that should be considered in interconnect RL extraction. The return current distribution affects loop charac...
Akira Tsuchiya, Masanori Hashimoto, Hidetoshi Onod...
ASPDAC
2005
ACM
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Power minimization for dynamic PLAs
—Dynamic programmable logic arrays (PLAs) which are built of the NOR–NOR structure, have been very popular in high performance design because of their high-speed and predictabl...
Tzyy-Kuen Tien, Chih-Shen Tsai, Shih-Chieh Chang, ...
ASPDAC
2005
ACM
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Yield driven gate sizing for coupling-noise reduction under uncertainty
Abstract— This paper presents a post-route gate-sizing algorithm for coupling-noise reduction that constrains the yield loss under process variations. Algorithms for coupling-noi...
Debjit Sinha, Hai Zhou
ASPDAC
2005
ACM
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Leakage control in FPGA routing fabric
Abstract— As FPGA designs in 65nm are being explored, reducing leakage power becomes an important design issue. A significant portion of the FPGA leakage is expended in the unus...
Suresh Srinivasan, Aman Gayasen, Narayanan Vijaykr...