ISPD
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
ISPD
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
ISPD
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
As the CMOS technology is scaled into the dimension of nanometer, the clock frequencies and die sizes of ICs are shown to be increasing steadily [5]. Today, global wires that requ...
ISPD
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
High performance integrated circuits are now reaching the 100-plus watt regime, and power delivery and power grid signal integrity have become critical. Analyzing the performance ...
ISPD
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper presents an efficient method for optimizing the design of power/ground (P/G) networks by using locally regular, globally irregular grids. The procedure divides the pow...
ISPD
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
Due to increasing design complexity, routing congestion has become a critical problem in VLSI designs. This paper introduces a distributed metric to predict routing congestion for...
ISPD
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
Considering the voltage drop constraint over a distributed model for power/ground (P/G) network, we study the following two problems for physical synthesis of sleep transistors: t...
ISPD
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
Many current designs contain a large number of standard cells intermixed with larger macro blocks. The range of size in these “mixed block” designs complicates the placement p...
ISPD
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
Automated cell placement is a critical problem in VLSI physical design. New analytical placement methods that simultaneously spread cells and optimize wirelength have recently rec...
ISPD
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper describes the structured ASIC technology and impacts to the implementation flow. With an optimized and programmable structure, the structured ASIC technology indeed int...