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ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Timing budgeting under arbitrary process variations
Timing budgeting under process variations is an important step in a statistical optimization flow. We propose a novel formulation of the problem where budgets are statistical ins...
Ruiming Chen, Hai Zhou
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Thermal-aware Steiner routing for 3D stacked ICs
— In this paper, we present the first work on the Steiner routing for 3D stacked ICs. In the 3D Steiner routing problem, the pins are located in multiple device layers, which ma...
Mohit Pathak, Sung Kyu Lim
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Timing optimization by restructuring long combinatorial paths
—We present an implementation of an algorithm for constructing provably fast circuits for a class of Boolean functions with input signals that have individual starting times. We ...
Jürgen Werber, Dieter Rautenbach, Christian S...
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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3D-STAF: scalable temperature and leakage aware floorplanning for three-dimensional integrated circuits
Abstract— Thermal issues are a primary concern in the threedimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) design. Temperature, area, and wire length must be simultaneously optimized du...
Pingqiang Zhou, Yuchun Ma, Zhuoyuan Li, Robert P. ...
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Device-circuit co-optimization for mixed-mode circuit design via geometric programming
Modern processing technologies offer a number of types of devices such as high-VT , low-VT , thick-oxide, etc. in addition to the nominal transistor in order to meet system perfor...
Jintae Kim, Ritesh Jhaveri, Jason Woo, Chih-Kong K...
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Performance and power evaluation of a 3D CMOS/nanomaterial reconfigurable architecture
—In this paper, we introduce a novel reconfigurable architecture, named 3D nFPGA, which utilizes 3D integration techniques and new nanoscale materials synergistically. The propos...
Chen Dong, Deming Chen, Sansiri Tanachutiwat, Wei ...
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Approximation algorithm for the temperature-aware scheduling problem
— The paper addresses the problem of performance optimization for a set of periodic tasks with discrete voltage/frequency states under thermal constraints. We prove that the prob...
Sushu Zhang, Karam S. Chatha
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Scalable exploration of functional dependency by interpolation and incremental SAT solving
Functional dependency is concerned with rewriting a Boolean function f as a function h over a set of base functions {g1, …, gn}, i.e. f = h(g1, …, gn). It plays an important r...
Chih-Chun Lee, Jie-Hong Roland Jiang, Chung-Yang H...
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Temperature aware microprocessor floorplanning considering application dependent power load
This paper studies microprocessor floorplanning considering thermal and throughput optimization. We first develop a stochastic heat diffusion model taking into account the appl...
Chunta Chu, Xinyi Zhang, Lei He, Tong Jing