Clock skew scheduling is a technique that intentionally introduces skews to memory elements to improve the performance of a sequential circuit. It was shown in [21] that the full ...
As IC process geometries scale down to the nanometer territory, the industry faces severe challenges of manufacturing limitations. To guarantee yield and reliability, physical des...
One of the efficient design methodologies for large scale System on a Chip (SoC) is IP-based design. In this methodology, a system is considered as a set of components and intercon...
Shigeru Watanabe, Kenshu Seto, Y. Ishikawa, Satosh...
Physical synthesis optimizations and engineering change orders typically change the locations of cells, resize cells or add more cells to the design after global placement. Unfort...
Haoxing Ren, David Z. Pan, Charles J. Alpert, Gi-J...