Multiple clock cycles are needed to cross the global interconnects for multi-gigahertz designs in nanometer technologies. For synchronous designs, this requires retiming and pipel...
Bounded Model Checking (BMC) based on Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) procedures has recently gained popularity as an alternative to BDD-based model checking techniques for finding b...
Aarti Gupta, Malay K. Ganai, Chao Wang, Zijiang Ya...
Coverage analysis is used to monitor the quality of the verification process. Reports provided by coverage tools help users identify areas in the design that have not been adequat...
The increased deployment of System-on-Chip designs has drawn attention to the limitations of on-chip interconnects. As a potential solution to these limitations, Networks-on -Chip...
Jongman Kim, Dongkook Park, Theo Theocharides, Nar...
Standard cells are fundamental circuit building blocks designed at very early design stages. Nanometer standard cells are prone to lithography proximity and process variations. Ho...
Yongchan Ban, Savithri Sundareswaran, David Z. Pan