ICCAD
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
— The communication sub-system of complex IC systems is increasingly critical for achieving system performance. Given this, it is important that the on-chip communication archite...
ICCAD
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
In this paper, we present a novel wire duplication-based interconnect modeling technique. The proposed modeling technique exploits the sparsity of the L 1 matrix, where L is the ...
ICCAD
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
Abstract—Interconnects (wires, buffers, clock distribution networks, multiplexers and busses) consume a significant fraction of total circuit power. In this work, we demonstrat...
ICCAD
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
Design ECO commonly happens in industry due to constraints or target changes from manufacturing, marketing, reliability, or performance. At each step, designers usually want to mo...
ICCAD
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
Within the verification community, there has been a recent increase in interest in Quantified Boolean Formula evaluation (QBF) as many interesting sequential circuit verification ...
ICCAD
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
The challenges for developing an ESD (Electro-static Discharge) layout extractor originate from unconventional layout patterns of ESD protection devices, parasitic ESD device extr...
ICCAD
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
This work presents several new techniques for enhancing the performance of deterministic test pattern generation for VLSI circuits. The techniques introduced are called dynamic de...
ICCAD
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
ICCAD
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
— One of the bottlenecks in the recent movement of hardware synthesis from behavioral C programs is the difficulty in reasoning about runtime pointer values at compile time. The...
ICCAD
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
─ In this paper, we present Forge, an optimal algorithm for gate sizing using the Elmore delay model. The algorithm utilizes Lagrangian relaxation with a fast gradient-based pre-...