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SAC
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Building the functional performance model of a processor
In this paper, we present an efficient procedure for building a piecewise linear function approximation of the speed function of a processor with hierarchical memory structure. Th...
Alexey L. Lastovetsky, Ravi Reddy, Robert Higgins
ISPD
2006
ACM
175views Hardware» more  ISPD 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
mPL6: enhanced multilevel mixed-size placement
The multilevel placement package mPL6 combines improved implementations of the global placer mPL5 (ISPD05) and the XDP legalizer and detailed placer (ASPDAC06). It consistently pr...
Tony F. Chan, Jason Cong, Joseph R. Shinnerl, Kent...
DAC
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Efficient model order reduction including skin effect
Skin effect makes interconnect resistance and inductance frequency dependent. This paper addresses the problem of efficiently estimating the signal characteristics of any RLC netw...
Shizhong Mei, Chirayu S. Amin, Yehea I. Ismail
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
109views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2003»
15 years 6 months ago
Large-Scale Circuit Placement: Gap and Promise
Placement is one of the most important steps in the RTLto-GDSII synthesis process, as it directly defines the interconnects, which have become the bottleneck in circuit and syste...
Jason Cong, Tim Kong, Joseph R. Shinnerl, Min Xie,...
SLIP
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Congestion prediction in early stages
Routability optimization has become a major concern in the physical design cycle of VLSI circuits. Due to the recent advances in VLSI technology, interconnect has become a dominan...
Chiu-Wing Sham, Evangeline F. Y. Young