Architectural simulation has achieved a prominent role in the system design cycle by providing designers the ability to quickly examine a wide variety of design choices. However, ...
Functional symmetries provide significant benefits for multiple tasks in synthesis and verification. Many applications require the manual specification of symmetries using spe...
Guoqiang Wang, Andreas Kuehlmann, Alberto L. Sangi...
—Robust circuit design has become a major concern for nanoscale technologies. As a consequence, for design validation, not only the functionality of a circuit has to be considere...
Marc Hunger, Sybille Hellebrand, Alejandro Czutro,...
The growing impact of within-die process variation has created the need for statistical timing analysis, where gate delays are modeled as random variables. Statistical timing anal...
Aseem Agarwal, David Blaauw, Vladimir Zolotov, Sar...
A modeling approach is presented that captures the dependence of the power dissipation of a combinational logic circuit on its input output signal switching activity. The resulting...