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ASPDAC
2005
ACM
107views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2005»
15 years 1 months ago
Making fast buffer insertion even faster via approximation techniques
Abstract— As technology scales to 0.13 micron and below, designs are requiring buffers to be inserted on interconnects of even moderate length for both critical paths and fixing...
Zhuo Li, Cliff C. N. Sze, Charles J. Alpert, Jiang...
FPGA
2008
ACM
131views FPGA» more  FPGA 2008»
15 years 1 months ago
WireMap: FPGA technology mapping for improved routability
This paper presents a new technology mapper, WireMap. The mapper uses an edge flow heuristic to improve the routability of a mapped design. The heuristic is applied during the ite...
Stephen Jang, Billy Chan, Kevin Chung, Alan Mishch...
ISLPED
2007
ACM
92views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2007»
15 years 1 months ago
Variable-latency adder (VL-adder): new arithmetic circuit design practice to overcome NBTI
Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) has become a dominant reliability concern for nanoscale PMOS transistors. In this paper, we propose variable-latency adder (VL-adder) ...
Yiran Chen, Hai Li, Jing Li, Cheng-Kok Koh
EAAI
2007
103views more  EAAI 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Particle swarm-based optimal partitioning algorithm for combinational CMOS circuits
This paper presents a swarm intelligence based approach to optimally partition combinational CMOS circuits for pseudoexhaustive testing. The partitioning algorithm ensures reducti...
Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Scott C. Smith, Gaurav ...
ISCAS
2007
IEEE
180views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Characterization of a Fault-tolerant NoC Router
— With increasing reliability concerns for current and next generation VLSI technologies, fault-tolerance is fast becoming an integral part of system-on-chip (SoC) and multicore ...
Sumit D. Mediratta, Jeffrey T. Draper