ISCAS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
-- Timing optimization is an important goal of global routing in deep submicron era. To guarantee the timing performance of the circuit, merely adopting topology optimization becom...
ICCD
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
— In this work we investigate the buffer insertion problem under process variations. Sub 100-nm fabrication process causes significant variations on many design parameters. We p...
ASPDAC
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
— Buffer insertion is an effective technique to reduce interconnect delay. In this paper, we give a simple O(mn) time algorithm for optimal buffer insertion, where m is the numbe...
ISVLSI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
In nanometer regime, the effects of process variations are dominating circuit performance, power and reliability of circuits. Hence, it is important to properly manage variation e...
ISQED
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
As technology advances, the interconnect delay among modules plays dominant role in chip performance. Buffer insertion, as a traditional approach to reduce wire delay in 2D ICs, i...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
As VLSI technology enters the nanoscale regime, interconnect delay has become the bottleneck of the circuit timing. As one of the most powerful techniques for interconnect optimiz...