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2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
A fully polynomial time approximation scheme for timing driven minimum cost buffer insertion
As VLSI technology enters the nanoscale regime, interconnect delay has become the bottleneck of the circuit timing. As one of the most powerful techniques for interconnect optimiz...
Shiyan Hu, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Online cache state dumping for processor debug
Post-silicon processor debugging is frequently carried out in a loop consisting of several iterations of the following two key steps: (i) processor execution for some duration, fo...
Anant Vishnoi, Preeti Ranjan Panda, M. Balakrishna...
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
ILP-based pin-count aware design methodology for microfluidic biochips
Digital microfluidic biochips have emerged as a popular alternative for laboratory experiments. To make the biochip feasible for practical applications, pin-count reduction is a k...
Cliff Chiung-Yu Lin, Yao-Wen Chang
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Improving STT MRAM storage density through smaller-than-worst-case transistor sizing
This paper presents a technique to improve the storage density of spin-torque transfer (STT) magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) in the presence of significant magnetic t...
Wei Xu, Yiran Chen, Xiaobin Wang, Tong Zhang
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Double patterning lithography friendly detailed routing with redundant via consideration
In double patterning lithography (DPL), coloring conflict and stitch minimization are the two main challenges. Post layout decomposition algorithm [1] [2]may not be enough to achi...
Kun Yuan, Katrina Lu, David Z. Pan