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ICCAD
2002
IEEE
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Shaping interconnect for uniform current density
As the VLSI technology scaling down, the electromigration problem becomes one of the major concerns in high-performance IC design for both power network and signal interconnects. ...
Muzhou Shao, D. F. Wong, Youxin Gao, Li-Pen Yuan, ...
ICCAD
2002
IEEE
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16 years 1 months ago
Conflict driven techniques for improving deterministic test pattern generation
This work presents several new techniques for enhancing the performance of deterministic test pattern generation for VLSI circuits. The techniques introduced are called dynamic de...
Chen Wang, Sudhakar M. Reddy, Irith Pomeranz, Xiji...
ICCAD
2001
IEEE
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16 years 1 months ago
Coupled Analysis of Electromigration Reliability and Performance in ULSI Signal Nets
In deep submicron VLSI circuits, interconnect reliability due to electromigration and thermal effects is fast becoming a serious design issue particularly for long signal lines. T...
Kaustav Banerjee, Amit Mehrotra
ISPD
2010
ACM
177views Hardware» more  ISPD 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Skew management of NBTI impacted gated clock trees
NBTI (Negative Bias Temperature Instability) has emerged as the dominant failure mechanism for PMOS in nanometer IC designs. However, its impact on one of the most important compo...
Ashutosh Chakraborty, David Z. Pan
ISPD
2010
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
SafeChoice: a novel clustering algorithm for wirelength-driven placement
This paper presents SafeChoice (SC), a novel clustering algorithm for wirelength-driven placement. Unlike all previous approaches, SC is proposed based on a fundamental theorem, s...
Jackey Z. Yan, Chris Chu, Wai-Kei Mak