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DAC
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
CAD Implications of New Interconnect Technologies
This paper looks at the CAD implications of possible new interconnect technologies. We consider three technologies in particular: three dimensional ICs, carbon nanotubes as a repl...
Louis Scheffer
DAC
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Integrated Droplet Routing in the Synthesis of Microfluidic Biochips
Microfluidic biochips are revolutionizing many areas of biochemistry and biomedical sciences. Several synthesis tools have recently been proposed for the automated design of bioch...
Tao Xu, Krishnendu Chakrabarty
DAC
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Computationally Efficient Power Integrity Simulation for System-on-Package Applications
Power integrity simulation for system-on-package (SoP) based modules is a crucial bottleneck in the SoP design flow. In this paper, the multi-layer finite difference method (M-FDM...
Krishna Bharath, Ege Engin, Madhavan Swaminathan, ...
DAC
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Parameterized Macromodeling for Analog System-Level Design Exploration
In this paper we propose a novel parameterized macromodeling technique for analog circuits. Unlike traditional macromodels that are only extracted for a small variation space, our...
Jian Wang, Xin Li, Lawrence T. Pileggi
DAC
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Automatic Verification of External Interrupt Behaviors for Microprocessor Design
Interrupt behaviors, especially the external ones, are difficult to verify in a microprocessor design project in that they involve both interacting hardware and software. This pap...
Fu-Ching Yang, Wen-Kai Huang, Ing-Jer Huang
DAC
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Compact State Machines for High Performance Pattern Matching
Pattern matching is essential to a wide range of applications such as network intrusion detection, virus scanning, etc. Pattern matching algorithms normally rely on state machines...
Piti Piyachon, Yan Luo
DAC
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Global Critical Path: A Tool for System-Level Timing Analysis
An effective method for focusing optimization effort on the most important parts of a design is to examine those elements on the critical path. Traditionally, the critical path is...
Girish Venkataramani, Mihai Budiu, Tiberiu Chelcea...
DAC
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Physical Unclonable Functions for Device Authentication and Secret Key Generation
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are innovative circuit primitives that extract secrets from physical characteristics of integrated circuits (ICs). We present PUF designs that...
G. Edward Suh, Srinivas Devadas
DAC
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Gate Sizing For Cell Library-Based Designs
With increasing time-to-market pressure and shortening semiconductor product cycles, more and more chips are being designed with library-based methodologies. In spite of this shif...
Shiyan Hu, Mahesh Ketkar, Jiang Hu