ICCAD
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
With increasing process variation, binning has become an important technique to improve the values of fabricated chips, especially in high performance microprocessors where transpa...
ASPDAC
2006
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2006
ACM
Due to false paths and multi-cycle paths in a circuit, using only topological delay to determine the clock period could be too conservative. In this paper, we address the timing a...
DAC
1994
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1994
ACM
- This paper analyzes the effect of resource sharing and assignment on the clock period of the synthesized circuit. We focus on behavioral specifications with mutually exclusive pa...
ISCAS
1994
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1994
IEEE
This paper addresses the problem of minimizing the clock period of a circuit by optimizingthe clock skews. We incorporate uncertainty factors and present a formulation that ensure...
ICCD
1997
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1997
IEEE
Abstract— In this paper we consider the problem of clustering sequential circuits subject to a bound on the area of each cluster, with the objective of minimizing the clock perio...
ISPD
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
As the CMOS technology is scaled into the dimension of nanometer, the clock frequencies and die sizes of ICs are shown to be increasing steadily [5]. Today, global wires that requ...