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DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Optimal cell flipping in placement and floorplanning
In a placed circuit, there are a lot of movable cells that can be flipped to further reduce the total wirelength, without affecting the original placement solution. We aim at solv...
Chiu-Wing Sham, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Chris C. N...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Efficient SAT-based Boolean matching for FPGA technology mapping
Most FPGA technology mapping approaches either target Lookup Tables (LUTs) or relatively simple Programmable Logic Blocks (PLBs). Considering networks of PLBs during technology map...
Sean Safarpour, Andreas G. Veneris, Gregg Baeckler...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Topology aware mapping of logic functions onto nanowire-based crossbar architectures
Highly regular, nanodevice based architectures have been proposed to replace pure CMOS based architectures in the emerging post CMOS era. Since bottom-up self-assembly is used to ...
Wenjing Rao, Alex Orailoglu, Ramesh Karri
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A new hybrid FPGA with nanoscale clusters and CMOS routing
In this paper we propose a hybrid FPGA using nanoscale clusters with an architecture similar to clusters of traditional CMOS FPGAs. The proposed cluster is made of a crossbar of n...
Reza M. Rad, Mohammad Tehranipoor
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Fast analysis of structured power grid by triangularization based structure preserving model order reduction
In this paper, a Triangularization Based Structure preserving (TBS) model order reduction is proposed to verify power integrity of on-chip structured power grid. The power grid is...
Hao Yu, Yiyu Shi, Lei He
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Design automation for DNA self-assembled nanostructures
DNA self-assembly is an emerging technology with potential as a future replacement of conventional lithographic fabrication. A key challenge is the specification of appropriate DN...
Constantin Pistol, Alvin R. Lebeck, Chris Dwyer
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Systems for human-powered mobile computing
This article outlines several projects aimed at generating electrical energy by passively tapping a variety of human body sources and activities. After summarizing different energ...
Joseph A. Paradiso
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Formal analysis of hardware requirements
Formal languages are increasingly used to describe the functional requirements (specifications) of circuits. These requirements are used as a means to communicate design intent an...
Ingo Pill, Simone Semprini, Roberto Cavada, Marco ...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Charge recycling in MTCMOS circuits: concept and analysis
Designing an energy efficient power gating structure is an important and challenging task in Multi-Threshold CMOS (MTCMOS) circuit design. In order to achieve a very low power des...
Ehsan Pakbaznia, Farzan Fallah, Massoud Pedram
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Prediction-based flow control for network-on-chip traffic
Networks-on-Chip (NoC) architectures provide a scalable solution to on-chip communication problem but the bandwidth offered by NoCs can be utilized efficiently only in presence of...
Ümit Y. Ogras, Radu Marculescu