Physical synthesis tools are responsible for achieving timing closure. Starting with 130nm designs, multiple cycles are required to cross the chip, making latch placement critical...
David A. Papa, Tao Luo, Michael D. Moffitt, Chin-N...
We present the definition of diverse models of physical systems using the Cell-DEVS paradigm. Cell-DEVS is an extension of the DEVS formalism that allows the definition of cellula...
Javier Ameghino, Alejandro Troccoli, Gabriel A. Wa...
A cache access time model, PRACTICS (PRedictor of Access and Cycle TIme for Cache Stack), has been developed to optimize the memory array architecture for the minimum access and c...
Annie (Yujuan) Zeng, Kenneth Rose, Ronald J. Gutma...
It is known that ramp-based models are not sufficient for accurate timing modeling. In this paper, we develop a technique that accurately models the waveforms, and also allows a f...
Anand Ramalingam, Ashish Kumar Singh, Sani R. Nass...
In nanometer regime, the effects of variations are having an increasing impact on the delay and power characteristics of devices as well as the yield of the circuit. Statistical t...