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DAC
1999
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A Framework for Collaborative and Distributed Web-Based Design
The increasing complexity and geographical separation of design data, tools and teams has created a need for a collaborative and distributed design environment. In this paper we p...
Gangadhar Konduri, Anantha Chandrakasan
DAC
1999
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Exact Memory Size Estimation for Array Computations without Loop Unrolling
This paper presents a new algorithm for exact estimation of the minimum memory size required by programs dealing with array computations. Memory size is an important factor a ecti...
Ying Zhao, Sharad Malik
DAC
1999
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Reducing Cross-Coupling Among Interconnect Wires in Deep-Submicron Datapath Design
As the CMOS technology enters the deep submicron design era, the lateral inter-wire coupling capacitance becomes the dominant part of load capacitance and makes RC delay on the bu...
Joon-Seo Yim, Chong-Min Kyung
DAC
1999
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A Floorplan-Based Planning Methodology for Power and Clock Distribution in ASICs
In deep submicron technology, IR-drop and clock skew issues become more crucial to the functionality of chip. This paper presents a oorplan-based power and clock distribution meth...
Joon-Seo Yim, Seong-Ok Bae, Chong-Min Kyung
DAC
1999
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Application of High Level Interface-Based Design to Telecommunications System Hardware
The assumption in moving system modelling to higher levels is that this improves the design process by allowing exploration of the architecture, providing an unambiguous specifica...
Dyson Wilkes, M. M. Kamal Hashmi
DAC
1999
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Mixed-Vth (MVT) CMOS Circuit Design Methodology for Low Power Applications
Dual threshold technique has been proposed to reduce leakage power in low voltage and low power circuits by applying a high threshold voltage to some transistors in non-critical p...
Liqiong Wei, Zhanping Chen, Kaushik Roy, Yibin Ye,...
DAC
1999
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Test Generation for Gigahertz Processors Using an Automatic Functional Constraint Extractor
As the sizes of general and special purpose processors increase rapidly, generating high quality manufacturing tests which can be run at native speeds is becoming a serious proble...
Raghuram S. Tupuri, Arun Krishnamachary, Jacob A. ...
DAC
1999
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Synthesis of Low Power CMOS VLSI Circuits Using Dual Supply Voltages
Dynamic power consumed in CMOS gates goes down quadratically with the supply voltage. By maintaining a high supply voltage for gates on the critical path and by using a low supply...
Vijay Sundararajan, Keshab K. Parhi
DAC
1999
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Stand-by Power Minimization Through Simultaneous Threshold Voltage Selection and Circuit Sizing
We present a new approach for estimation and optimization of the average stand-by power dissipation in large MOS digital circuits. To overcome the complexity of state dependence i...
Supamas Sirichotiyakul, Tim Edwards, Chanhee Oh, J...