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DAC
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
ComPLx: A Competitive Primal-dual Lagrange Optimization for Global Placement
We develop a projected-subgradient primal-dual Lagrange optimization for global placement, that can be instantiated with a variety of interconnect models. It decomposes the origin...
Myung-Chul Kim, Igor L. Markov
DAC
2011
ACM
12 years 4 months ago
Characterizing within-die and die-to-die delay variations introduced by process variations and SOI history effect
Variations in delay caused by within-die and die-to-die process variations and SOI history effect increase timing margins and reduce performance. In order to develop mitigation te...
Jim Aarestad, Charles Lamech, Jim Plusquellic, Dhr...
DAC
2011
ACM
12 years 4 months ago
Full-chip TSV-to-TSV coupling analysis and optimization in 3D IC
This paper studies TSV-to-TSV coupling in 3D ICs. A full-chip SI analysis flow is proposed based on the proposed coupling model. Analysis results show that TSVs cause significan...
Chang Liu, Taigon Song, Jonghyun Cho, Joohee Kim, ...
DAC
2011
ACM
12 years 4 months ago
AENEID: a generic lithography-friendly detailed router based on post-RET data learning and hotspot detection
In the era of deep sub-wavelength lithography for nanometer VLSI designs, manufacturability and yield issues are critical and need to be addressed during the key physical design i...
Duo Ding, Jhih-Rong Gao, Kun Yuan, David Z. Pan
ICS
2011
Tsinghua U.
12 years 8 months ago
An idiom-finding tool for increasing productivity of accelerators
Suppose one is considering purchase of a computer equipped with accelerators. Or suppose one has access to such a computer and is considering porting code to take advantage of the...
Laura Carrington, Mustafa M. Tikir, Catherine Olsc...
DAC
2005
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
A design platform for 90-nm leakage reduction techniques
Methodology, EDA Flow, scripts, and documentation plays a tremendous role in the deployment and standardization of advanced design techniques. In this paper we focus not only on l...
Philippe Royannez, Hugh Mair, Franck Dahan, Mike W...