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GECCO
2007
Springer
138views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 5 months ago
Reducing the number of transistors in digital circuits using gate-level evolutionary design
This paper shows that the evolutionary design of digital circuits which is conducted at the gate level is able to produce human-competitive circuits at the transistor level. In ad...
Zbysek Gajda, Lukás Sekanina
CLEIEJ
2010
14 years 8 months ago
3D-Via Driven Partitioning for 3D VLSI Integrated Circuits
A 3D circuit is the stacking of regular 2D circuits. The advances on the fabrication and packaging technologies allowed interconnecting stacked 2D circuits by using 3D vias. Howeve...
Sandro Sawicki, Gustavo Wilke, Marcelo O. Johann, ...
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
86views Hardware» more  ICCAD 1997»
15 years 3 months ago
Interconnect design for deep submicron ICs
Interconnect has become the dominating factor in determining circuit performance and reliability in deep submicron designs. In this embedded tutorial, we first discuss the trends...
Jason Cong, David Zhigang Pan, Lei He, Cheng-Kok K...
DAC
2008
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Leakage power-aware clock skew scheduling: converting stolen time into leakage power reduction
Clock skew scheduling has been traditionally considered as a tool for improving the clock period in a sequential circuit. Timing slack is "stolen" from fast combinationa...
Min Ni, Seda Ogrenci Memik
DATE
2009
IEEE
135views Hardware» more  DATE 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Gate replacement techniques for simultaneous leakage and aging optimization
—1As technology scales, the aging effect caused by Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has become a major reliability concern for circuit designers. On the other hand, r...
Yu Wang 0002, Xiaoming Chen, Wenping Wang, Yu Cao,...