ICCAD
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
This paper studies the effects of clustering as a pre-processing step and routability estimation in the placement flow. The study shows that when clustering and routability estima...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Computational protein design can be formulated as an optimization problem, where the objective is to identify the sequence of amino acids that minimizes the energy of a given prot...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Dramatic progress has been made in algorithms for placement and routing over the last 5 years, with improvements in both speed and quality. Combining placement and routing into a ...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Multi-core processors have become an integral part of mainstream high performance computer systems. In parallel, exponentially increasing power density and packaging costs have ne...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Heat removal and power delivery have become two major reliability concerns in 3D stacked IC technology. For thermal problem, two possible solutions exist: thermal-through-silicon-...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
In this paper, we propose a new technique, referred to as virtual probe (VP), to efficiently measure, characterize and monitor both inter-die and spatially-correlated intra-die va...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Economic incentives have driven the semiconductor industry to separate design from fabrication in recent years. This trend leads to potential vulnerabilities from untrusted circui...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Phase-change random access memory (PCRAM) is an emerging memory technology with attractive features, such as fast read access, high density, and non-volatility. Because of these a...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Modern circuits become harder to route with the ever decreasing design features. Previous routability-driven placement techniques are usually tightly coupled with the underlying p...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Process and environmental variations continue to present significant challenges to designers of high-performance integrated circuits. In the past few years, while much research has...