ISPD
2012
ACM
12 years 9 days ago
2012
ACM
Importance sampling is a popular approach to estimate rare event failures of SRAM cells. We propose to improve importance sampling by probability collectives. First, we use “Kul...
ISPD
2012
ACM
12 years 9 days ago
2012
ACM
As technology scales and frequency increases, a new design style is emerging, referred to as hybrid designs, which contain a mixture of random logic and datapath standard cell com...
ISPD
2012
ACM
12 years 9 days ago
2012
ACM
Gate sizing in VLSI design is a widely-used method for power or area recovery subject to timing constraints. Several previous works have proposed gate sizing heuristics for power ...
ISPD
2012
ACM
12 years 9 days ago
2012
ACM
There are two prominent problems with technology scaling: increasing design complexity and more challenges with interconnect design, including routability. High-level synthesis ha...
ISPD
2012
ACM
12 years 9 days ago
2012
ACM
We propose a new multilevel framework for large-scale placement called MAPLE that respects utilization constraints, handles movable macros and guides the transition between global...
ISPD
2012
ACM
12 years 9 days ago
2012
ACM
In this paper, we propose a new approach for gated bus synthesis [16] with minimum wire capacitance per transaction in three-dimensional (3D) ICs. The 3D IC technology connects di...