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DATE
2006
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Timing-driven cell layout de-compaction for yield optimization by critical area minimization
This paper proposes a yield optimization method for standard-cells under timing constraints. Yield-aware logic synthesis and physical optimization require yield-enhanced standard ...
Tetsuya Iizuka, Makoto Ikeda, Kunihiro Asada
DATE
2006
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Thermal resilient bounded-skew clock tree optimization methodology
The existence of non-uniform thermal gradients on the substrate in high performance IC’s can significantly impact the performance of global on-chip interconnects. This issue is...
Ashutosh Chakraborty, Prassanna Sithambaram, Karth...
ISQED
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Revisiting the linear programming framework for leakage power vs. performance optimization
— This paper revisits and extends a general linear programming(LP) formulation to exploit multiple knobs such as multi-Lgate footprint-compatible libraries and post-layout Lgateb...
Kwangok Jeong, Andrew B. Kahng, Hailong Yao
CGO
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Stream Compilation for Real-Time Embedded Multicore Systems
Abstract—Multicore systems have not only become ubiquitous in the desktop and server worlds, but are also becoming the standard in the embedded space. Multicore offers programabi...
Yoonseo Choi, Yuan Lin, Nathan Chong, Scott A. Mah...
ICCAD
2001
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Constraint Satisfaction for Relative Location Assignment and Scheduling
Tight data- and timing constraints are imposed by communication and multimedia applications. The architecture for the embedded processor imply resource constraints. Instead of ran...
Carlos A. Alba Pinto, Bart Mesman, Jochen A. G. Je...
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Gate sizing for crosstalk reduction under timing constraints by Lagrangian relaxation
Abstract— This paper presents a post-route, timingconstrained gate-sizing algorithm for crosstalk reduction. Gate-sizing has emerged as a practical and feasible method to reduce ...
Debjit Sinha, Hai Zhou
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Simultaneous short-path and long-path timing optimization for FPGAs
This paper presents the Routing Cost Valleys (RCV) algorithm – the first published algorithm that simultaneously optimizes all short- and long-path timing constraints in a Field...
Ryan Fung, Vaughn Betz, William Chow
VLSID
2002
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Mode Selection and Mode-Dependency Modeling for Power-Aware Embedded Systems
Among the many techniques for system-level power management, it is not currently possible to guarantee timing constraints and have a comprehensive system model at the same time. S...
Dexin Li, Pai H. Chou, Nader Bagherzadeh