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ICCAD
2004
IEEE
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Simultaneous short-path and long-path timing optimization for FPGAs
This paper presents the Routing Cost Valleys (RCV) algorithm – the first published algorithm that simultaneously optimizes all short- and long-path timing constraints in a Field...
Ryan Fung, Vaughn Betz, William Chow
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
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A thermal-driven floorplanning algorithm for 3D ICs
As the technology progresses, interconnect delays have become bottlenecks of chip performance. Three dimensional (3D) integrated circuits are proposed as one way to address this p...
Jason Cong, Jie Wei, Yan Zhang
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
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A new incremental placement algorithm and its application to congestion-aware divisor extraction
— This paper presents two contributions. The first is an incremental placement algorithm for placement-aware logic synthesis along with a proof of optimality. The algorithm can ...
Satrajit Chatterjee, Robert K. Brayton
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
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Timing macro-modeling of IP blocks with crosstalk
With the increase of design complexities and the decrease of minimal feature sizes, IP reuse is becoming a common practice while crosstalk is becoming a critical issue that must b...
Ruiming Chen, Hai Zhou
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
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HiSIM: hierarchical interconnect-centric circuit simulator
To ensure the power and signal integrity of modern VLSI circuits, it is crucial to analyze huge amount of nonlinear devices together with enormous interconnect and even substrate ...
Tsung-Hao Chen, Jeng-Liang Tsai, Tanay Karnik
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
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DAOmap: a depth-optimal area optimization mapping algorithm for FPGA designs
In this paper we study the technology mapping problem for FPGA architectures to minimize chip area, or the total number of lookup tables (LUTs) of the mapped design, under the chi...
Deming Chen, Jason Cong
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
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High-level synthesis: an essential ingredient for designing complex ASICs
It is common wisdom that synthesizing hardware from higher-level descriptions than Verilog will incur a performance penalty. The case study here shows that this need not be the ca...
Arvind, Rishiyur S. Nikhil, Daniel L. Rosenband, N...
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
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Design space exploration for a UMTS front-end exploiting analog platforms
F. De Bernarclinis, S. Gambini, R. Vincis, F. Svel...
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
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Simultaneous communication and processor voltage scaling for dynamic and leakage energy reduction in time-constrained systems
In this paper, we propose a new technique for the combined voltage scaling of processors and communication links, taking into account dynamic as well as leakage power consumption....
Alexandru Andrei, Marcus T. Schmitz, Petru Eles, Z...