An effective method for focusing optimization effort on the most important parts of a design is to examine those elements on the critical path. Traditionally, the critical path is...
Girish Venkataramani, Mihai Budiu, Tiberiu Chelcea...
Rapid approximation of the transient response of high-speed global interconnects is needed to estimate the time delay, crosstalk, and overshoot in a GSI multilevel wiring network....
Raguraman Venkatesan, Jeffrey A. Davis, James D. M...
Power consumption, particularly runtime leakage, in long on-chip buses has grown to an unacceptable portion of the total power budget due to heavy buffer insertion to combat RC de...
Harmander Deogun, Rajeev R. Rao, Dennis Sylvester,...
Device scaling such as reduced oxide thickness and high electric field has given rise to various reliability concerns. One such growing issue of concern is the degradation of PMOS...
Krishnan Ramakrishnan, S. Suresh, Narayanan Vijayk...
Inter-wire coupling is a major source of power consumption and delay faults for on-chip buses implemented in UDSM SoC Systems. Elimination or minimization of such faults is crucia...