ISPD
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
— In order to achieve timing closure on increasingly complex IC designs, buffer insertion needs to be performed on thousands of nets within an integrated physical synthesis syste...
ISPD
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
The thermal problem has been emerged as one of the key issues for next-generation IC design. In this paper, we propose a scheme to achieve better thermal distribution for partitio...
ISPD
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
This paper studies the optimality, scalability and stability of stateof-the-art partitioning and placement algorithms. We present algorithms to construct two classes of benchmarks...
ISPD
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Over the last five years the VLSI Placement community achieved great strides in the understanding of placement problems, developed new high-performance algorithms, and achieved i...
ISPD
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Design rules in advanced IC manufacturing processes are increasingly problematic for modern router architectures and algorithms. This paper first reviews types and causes of “d...