As the number of metal layers and the frequency of VLSI continue to increase, the voltage droop on both the package and vias is becoming more pronounced. This paper analyzes the nu...
Jin Shi, Yici Cai, Xianlong Hong, Sheldon X.-D. Ta...
This paper presents a new tool for the automatic generation of highly parallelized Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters. In this approach we follow our PARO design methodology. P...
Holger Ruckdeschel, Hritam Dutta, Frank Hannig, J&...
The Pentium® 4 processor architecture uses a 2x frequency core clock[1] to implement low latency integer ops. Low Voltage Swing logic circuits implemented in 90nm technology[2] m...
Daniel J. Deleganes, Micah Barany, George Geannopo...
As technology advances into nanometer territory, the antenna problem has caused significant impact on routing tools. The antenna effect is a phenomenon of plasmainduced gate oxide...
Due to increasing design complexity, routing congestion has become a critical problem in VLSI designs. This paper introduces a distributed metric to predict routing congestion for...
Rupesh S. Shelar, Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Prashant S...