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DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Timing-driven Steiner trees are (practically) free
Traditionally, rectilinear Steiner minimum trees (RSMT) are widely used for routing estimation in design optimizations like floorplanning and physical synthesis. Since it optimize...
Charles J. Alpert, Andrew B. Kahng, Cliff C. N. Sz...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A family of cells to reduce the soft-error-rate in ternary-CAM
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...
Navid Azizi, Farid N. Najm
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Structure preserving reduction of frequency-dependent interconnect
A rational Arnoldi method for passivity-preserving model-order reduction (MOR) with implicit multi-point moment matching for systems with frequency-dependent interconnects is desc...
Quming Zhou, Kartik Mohanram, Athanasios C. Antoul...
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Optimal procrastinating voltage scheduling for hard real-time systems
This paper presents an optimal procrastinating voltage scheduling (OP-DVS) for hard real-time systems using stochastic workload information. Algorithms are presented for both sing...
Yan Zhang, Zhijian Lu, John Lach, Kevin Skadron, M...
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
High performance computing on fault-prone nanotechnologies: novel microarchitecture techniques exploiting reliability-delay trad
Device and interconnect fabrics at the nanoscale will have a density of defects and susceptibility to transient faults far exceeding those of current silicon technologies. In this...
Andrey V. Zykov, Elias Mizan, Margarida F. Jacome,...
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Correlation-preserved non-gaussian statistical timing analysis with quadratic timing model
Recent study shows that the existing first order canonical timing model is not sufficient to represent the dependency of the gate delay on the variation sources when processing an...
Lizheng Zhang, Weijen Chen, Yuhen Hu, John A. Gubn...
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
System-level energy-efficient dynamic task scheduling
Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) is a well-known low power design technique that reduces the processor energy by slowing down the DVS processor and stretching the task execution time...
Jianli Zhuo, Chaitali Chakrabarti
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Enhanced leakage reduction Technique by gate replacement
Input vector control (IVC) technique utilizes the stack effect in CMOS circuit to apply the minimum leakage vector (MLV) to the circuit at the sleep mode to reduce leakage. Additi...
Lin Yuan, Gang Qu