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DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
IPR: An Integrated Placement and Routing Algorithm
Abstract-- In nanometer-scale VLSI technologies, several interconnect issues like routing congestion and interconnect delay have become the main concerns in placement. However, all...
Min Pan, Chris C. N. Chu
DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Optimal Selection of Voltage Regulator Modules in a Power Delivery Network
High efficiency low voltage DC-DC conversion is a key enabler to the design of power-efficient integrated circuits. Typically a star configuration of the DC-DC converters, where o...
Behnam Amelifard, Massoud Pedram
DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Statistical Analysis of Full-Chip Leakage Power Considering Junction Tunneling Leakage
In this paper we address the the growing issue of junction tunneling leakage (Ijunc) at the circuit level. Specifically, we develop a fast approach to analyze the state-dependent ...
Tao Li, Zhiping Yu
DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Faster symmetry discovery using sparsity of symmetries
Many computational tools have recently begun to benefit from the use of the symmetry inherent in the tasks they solve, and use general-purpose graph symmetry tools to uncover this...
Paul T. Darga, Karem A. Sakallah, Igor L. Markov
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DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
On the role of timing masking in reliable logic circuit design
Soft errors, once only of concern in memories, are beginning to affect logic as well. Determining the soft error rate (SER) of a combinational circuit involves three main masking ...
Smita Krishnaswamy, Igor L. Markov, John P. Hayes
DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
An integrated nonlinear placement framework with congestion and porosity aware buffer planning
Due to skewed scaling of interconnect delay and cell delay with technology scaling, modern VLSI timing closure requires use of extensive buffer insertion. Inserting a large number...
Tung-Chieh Chen, Ashutosh Chakraborty, David Z. Pa...
DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Energy-optimal software partitioning in heterogeneous multiprocessor embedded systems
Embedded systems with heterogeneous processors extend the energy/timing trade-off flexibility and provide the opportunity to fine tune resource utilization for particular applicat...
Michel Goraczko, Jie Liu, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos,...
DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Optimizing automatic abstraction refinement for generalized symbolic trajectory evaluation
ng Automatic Abstraction Refinement for Generalized Symbolic Trajectory Evaluation Yan Chen Dept. of Computer Science Portland State University Portland, OR, 97207 chenyan@cs.pdx.e...
Yan Chen, Fei Xie, Jin Yang