This paper presents a method to reduce energy consumption by inserting data buffers. The method determines whether power can be reduced by inserting a buffer between two component...
— In order to achieve timing closure on increasingly complex IC designs, buffer insertion needs to be performed on thousands of nets within an integrated physical synthesis syste...
Charles J. Alpert, Gopal Gandham, Milos Hrkic, Jia...
As technology advances, the interconnect delay among modules plays dominant role in chip performance. Buffer insertion, as a traditional approach to reduce wire delay in 2D ICs, i...
As a prevalent constraint, sharp slew rate is often required in circuit design which causes a huge demand for buffering resources. This problem requires ultra-fast buffering techn...
Shiyan Hu, Charles J. Alpert, Jiang Hu, Shrirang K...
To implement high-performance global interconnect without impacting the performance of existing blocks, the use of buffer blocks is increasingly popular in structured-custom and b...
Feodor F. Dragan, Andrew B. Kahng, Ion I. Mandoiu,...