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2008
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
2008
ACM
In this paper, we present DeFer -- a fast, high-quality and nonstochastic fixed-outline floorplanning algorithm. DeFer generates a non-slicing floorplan by compacting a slicing fl...
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DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
2008
ACM
Temperature hot-spots have been known to cause severe reliability problems and to significantly increase leakage power. The register file has been previously shown to exhibit the ...
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2008
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
2008
ACM
In this paper, a novel automatic approach for the concurrent topology and routing optimization that achieves a high quality network layout is proposed. This optimization is based ...
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2008
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
2008
ACM
Achieving high performance under a peak temperature limit is a first-order concern for VLSI designers. This paper presents a new model of a thermally-managed system, where a stoch...