ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
DSM and nanometer VLSI designs are subject to an increasingly significant thermal effect on VLSI circuit lifetime and performance variation, which can be effectively subdued by V...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
This paper presents a methodology to generate a hierarchy of power models for power estimation of custom hardware IP blocks, enabling a trade-off between power estimation accuracy...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
One of the biggest challenges in 3D stacked IC design is heat dissipation. Incorporating thermal vias is a promising method for reducing the temperatures of 3D ICs. The bonding st...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
This paper proposes an efficient analysis flow and an algorithm to identify the worst case noise for power networks with multiple clock domains. First, we apply the Laplace transf...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
Considering the impact of the popular energy management technique Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) on system reliability, the Reliability-Aware Power Management (RA-PM...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
Microarchitectural simulation is orders of magnitude slower than native execution. As more elements are accurately modeled, problems associated with slow simulation are further ex...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
We present new techniques for explicit constraint satisfaction in the incremental placement process. Our algorithm employs a Lagrangian Relaxation (LR) type approach in the analyt...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
Low energy and small switch area usage are two of the important design objectives in FPGA global routing architecture design. This paper presents an improved MCF model based CAD ...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
We have developed a new statistical timing analysis approach that does not impose any assumptions on the nature of manufacturing variability and takes into account an arbitrary mo...