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2005
ACM
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15 years 5 months ago
Coupling aware timing optimization and antenna avoidance in layer assignment
The sustained progress of VLSI technology has altered the landscape of routing which is a major physical design stage. For timing driven routings, traditional approaches which con...
Di Wu, Jiang Hu, Rabi N. Mahapatra
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DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 20 days ago
Confidence Scalable Post-Silicon Statistical Delay Prediction under Process Variations
Due to increased variability trends in nanoscale integrated circuits, statistical circuit analysis has become essential. We present a novel method for post-silicon analysis that g...
Qunzeng Liu, Sachin S. Sapatnekar
DAC
2001
ACM
16 years 19 days ago
Performance-Driven Multi-Level Clustering with Application to Hierarchical FPGA Mapping
In this paper, we study the problem of performance-driven multi-level circuit clustering with application to hierarchical FPGA designs. We first show that the performance-driven m...
Jason Cong, Michail Romesis
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DAC
2006
ACM
16 years 19 days ago
Power-centric design of high-speed I/Os
With increasing aggregate off-chip bandwidths exceeding terabits/second (Tb/s), the power dissipation is a serious design consideration. Additionally, design of I/O links is const...
Hamid Hatamkhani, Frank Lambrecht, Vladimir Stojan...
89
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DAC
2006
ACM
16 years 19 days ago
Gate sizing: finFETs vs 32nm bulk MOSFETs
FinFET devices promise to replace traditional MOSFETs because of superior ability in controlling leakage and minimizing short channel effects while delivering a strong drive curre...
Brian Swahn, Soha Hassoun