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ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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Soft error reduction in combinational logic using gate resizing and flipflop selection
Soft errors in logic are emerging as a significant reliability problem for VLSI designs. This paper presents novel circuit optimization techniques to mitigate soft error rates (SE...
Rajeev R. Rao, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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Current path analysis for electrostatic discharge protection
The electrostatic discharge (ESD) problem has become a challenging reliability issue in nanometer circuit design. High voltages resulted from ESD might cause high current densitie...
Hung-Yi Liu, Chung-Wei Lin, Szu-Jui Chou, Wei-Ting...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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Factor cuts
Enumeration of bounded size cuts is an important step in several logic synthesis algorithms such as technology mapping and re-writing. The standard algorithm does not scale beyond...
Satrajit Chatterjee, Alan Mishchenko, Robert K. Br...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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Stable and compact inductance modeling of 3-D interconnect structures
Recent successful techniques for the efficient simulation of largescale interconnect models rely on the sparsification of the inverse of the inductance matrix L. While there are...
Hong Li, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Cheng-Kok Ko...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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Fill for shallow trench isolation CMP
Shallow trench isolation (STI) is the mainstream CMOS isolation technology. It uses chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) to remove excess of deposited oxide and attain a planar...
Andrew B. Kahng, Puneet Sharma, Alexander Zelikovs...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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Platform-based resource binding using a distributed register-file microarchitecture
Behavior synthesis and optimization beyond the register transfer level require an efficient utilization of the underlying platform features. This paper presents a platform-based ...
Jason Cong, Yiping Fan, Wei Jiang
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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Wire density driven global routing for CMP variation and timing
In this paper, we propose the first wire density driven global routing that considers CMP variation and timing. To enable CMP awareness during global routing, we propose a compac...
Minsik Cho, David Z. Pan, Hua Xiang, Ruchir Puri
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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Efficient process-hotspot detection using range pattern matching
Hailong Yao, Subarna Sinha, Charles Chiang, Xianlo...