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2005
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We demonstrate how to use placement to ameliorate the predicted repeater explosion problem caused by poor interconnect scaling. We achieve repeater count reduction by dynamically ...
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2005
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Achieving design closure is one of the biggest headaches for modern VLSI designers. This problem is exacerbated by high-level design automation tools that ignore increasingly impo...
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2005
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2005
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Signal processing and multimedia applications are often implemented on resource constrained embedded systems. It is therefore important to find implementations that use as little ...
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2005
ACM
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2005
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Previous research has shown both theoretically and practically that simulated annealing can greatly benefit from the incorporation of an adaptive range limiting window to control ...
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2005
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2005
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We present applications of a recently developed automated nonlinear macromodelling approach to the important problem of macromodelling high-speed output buffers/drivers. Good nonl...
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2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
2005
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In this work, we propose a new paradigm called power emulation, which exploits hardware acceleration to drastically speedup power estimation. Power emulation is based on the obser...
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2005
ACM
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2005
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Lowering power is one of the greatest challenges facing the IC industry today. We present a power-aware placement method that simultaneously performs (1) activity-based register c...
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2005
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2005
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Device optimization considering supply voltage Vdd and threshold voltage Vt tuning does not increase chip area but has a great impact on power and performance in the nanometer tec...