DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
As VLSI technology scales toward 65nm and beyond, both timing and power performance of integrated circuits are increasingly affected by process variations. In practice, people oft...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
In this paper, we propose an adaptive low-power bus encoding algorithm based on weighted code mapping (WCM) and the delayed bus technique. The WCM algorithm transforms an original...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
Increasing resistivity of copper with scaling and rising demands on current density requirements are driving the need to identify new wiring solutions for deep nanometer scale VLS...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
In this paper, we present a method that helps improve the performance of Bounded Model Checking by automatically strengthening invariants so that the termination proof may be obta...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
In this paper, we propose an exact algorithm for the problem of area optimization under a delay constraint in the synthesis of multiplierless FIR filters. To the best of our knowl...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
The delay fault test pattern set generated by timing unaware commercial ATPG tools mostly affects very short paths, thereby increasing the escape chance of smaller delay defects. ...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
Traditionally, rectilinear Steiner minimum trees (RSMT) are widely used for routing estimation in design optimizations like floorplanning and physical synthesis. Since it optimize...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
Modern integrated circuits require careful attention to the soft-error rate (SER) resulting from bit upsets, which are normally caused by alpha particle or neutron hits. These eve...