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...
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...
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) ...
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 ...
— 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 ...