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ASPDAC
2008
ACM
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Faster projection based methods for circuit level verification
As VLSI fabrication technology progresses to 65nm feature sizes and smaller, transistors no longer operate as ideal switches. This motivates the verification of digital circuits us...
Chao Yan, Mark R. Greenstreet
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
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Dynamic supply noise measurement circuit composed of standard cells suitable for in-site SoC power integrity verification
This paper presents an all digital measurement circuit called "gated oscillator" for capturing waveforms of dynamic power supply noise. The gated oscillator is constructe...
Yasuhiro Ogasahara, Masanori Hashimoto, Takao Onoy...
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
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Pessimism reduction in coupling-aware static timing analysis using timing and logic filtering
With continued scaling of technology into nanometer regimes, the impact of coupling induced delay variations is significant. While several coupling-aware static timers have been pr...
Debasish Das, Kip Killpack, Chandramouli V. Kashya...
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
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MaizeRouter: Engineering an effective global router
In this paper, we present the complete design and architectural details of MAIZEROUTER. MAIZEROUTER reflects a significant leap in progress over existing publicly available routing...
Michael D. Moffitt
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
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Symmetry-aware placement with transitive closure graphs for analog layout design
Lihong Zhang, C.-J. Richard Shi, Yingtao Jiang
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
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Low power clock buffer planning methodology in F-D placement for large scale circuit design
Traditionally, clock network layout is performed after cell placement. Such methodology is facing a serious problem in nanometer IC designs where people tend to use huge clock buff...
Yanfeng Wang, Qiang Zhou, Yici Cai, Jiang Hu, Xian...
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
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Chebyshev Affine Arithmetic based parametric yield prediction under limited descriptions of uncertainty
In modern circuit design, it is difficult to provide reliable parametric yield prediction since the real distribution of process data is hard to measure. Most existing approaches ...
Jin Sun, Yue Huang, Jun Li, Janet Meiling Wang
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
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A Compiler-in-the-Loop framework to explore Horizontally Partitioned Cache architectures
Horizontally Partitioned Caches (HPCs) are a promising architectural feature to reduce the energy consumption of the memory subsystem. However, the energy reduction obtained using...
Aviral Shrivastava, Ilya Issenin, Nikil Dutt