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2008
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Early Analysis and Budgeting of Margins and Corners Using Two-Sided Analytical Yield Models
Manufacturing process variations lead to variability in circuit delay and, if not accounted for, can cause excessive timing yield loss. The familiar traditional approaches to timin...
Khaled R. Heloue, Farid N. Najm
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2008
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Power Grid Analysis and Optimization Using Algebraic Multigrid
Abstract--This paper presents a class of power grid analysis and optimization techniques, all of which are based on the algebraic-multigrid (AMG) method. First, a new AMG-based red...
Cheng Zhuo, Jiang Hu, Min Zhao, Kangsheng Chen
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2008
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A New Multilevel Framework for Large-Scale Interconnect-Driven Floorplanning
We present in this paper a new interconnect-driven multilevel floorplanner, called interconnect-driven multilevelfloorplanning framework (IMF), to handle large-scale buildingmodule...
Tung-Chieh Chen, Yao-Wen Chang, Shyh-Chang Lin
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2008
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Word-Level Predicate-Abstraction and Refinement Techniques for Verifying RTL Verilog
el Predicate Abstraction and Refinement Techniques for Verifying RTL Verilog Himanshu Jain, Daniel Kroening, Natasha Sharygina, and Edmund M. Clarke, Fellow, IEEE As a first step, ...
Himanshu Jain, Daniel Kroening, Natasha Sharygina,...
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2008
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Variability-Aware Bulk-MOS Device Design
As CMOS technology is scaled down toward the nanoscale regime, drastically growing leakage currents and variations in device characteristics are becoming two important design chall...
Javid Jaffari, Mohab Anis
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2008
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Quantum Circuit Simplification and Level Compaction
Abstract--Quantum circuits are time-dependent diagrams describing the process of quantum computation. Usually, a quantum algorithm must be mapped into a quantum circuit. Optimal sy...
Dmitri Maslov, Gerhard W. Dueck, D. Michael Miller...
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2008
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An Anytime Algorithm for Generalized Symmetry Detection in ROBDDs
Detecting symmetries has many applications in logic synthesis that include, amongst other things, technology mapping, deciding equivalence of Boolean functions when the input corre...
Neil Kettle, Andy King
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2008
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Reduction of Parametric Failures in Sub-100-nm SRAM Array Using Body Bias
Abstract--In this paper, we present a postsilicon-tuning technique to improve parametric yield of SRAM array using body bias (BB). First, we show that, although parametric failures...
Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Hamid Mahmoodi, Kaushik Roy
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2008
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A Geometric Programming-Based Worst Case Gate Sizing Method Incorporating Spatial Correlation
We present an efficient optimization scheme for gate sizing in the presence of process variations. Our method is a worst-case design scheme, but it reduces the pessimism involved i...
Jaskirat Singh, Zhi-Quan Luo, Sachin S. Sapatnekar