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ISPD
2004
ACM
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On optimal physical synthesis of sleep transistors
Considering the voltage drop constraint over a distributed model for power/ground (P/G) network, we study the following two problems for physical synthesis of sleep transistors: t...
Changbo Long, Jinjun Xiong, Lei He
DATE
2002
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Global Optimization Applied to the Oscillator Problem
The oscillator problem consists of determining good initial values for the node voltages and the frequency of oscillation and the avoidance of the DC solution. Standard approaches...
S. Lampe, S. Laur
DATE
2002
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Analog IP Testing: Diagnosis and Optimization
In this paper, we present an innovative methodology to estimate and improve the quality of analog and mixed-signal circuit testing. We first detect and reduce the redundancy in th...
Carlo Guardiani, Patrick McNamara, Lidia Daldoss, ...
ICCD
2006
IEEE
183views Hardware» more  ICCD 2006»
15 years 8 months ago
An Active Decoupling Capacitance Circuit for Inductive Noise Suppression in Power Supply Networks
The placement of on-die decoupling capacitors (decap) between the power and ground supply grids has become a common practice in high performance processor designs. In this paper, ...
Sanjay Pant, David Blaauw
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Checking equivalence of quantum circuits and states
Among the post-CMOS technologies currently under investigation, quantum computing (QC) holds a special place. QC offers not only extremely small size and low power, but also expon...
George F. Viamontes, Igor L. Markov, John P. Hayes