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2009
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Fixed points for multi-cycle path detection
—Accurate timing analysis is crucial for obtaining the optimal clock frequency, and for other design stages such as power analysis. Most methods for estimating propagation delay ...
Vijay D'Silva, Daniel Kroening
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Risk aversion min-period retiming under process variations
— Recent advances in statistical timing analysis (SSTA) achieve great success in computing arrival times under variations by extending sum and maximum operations to random variab...
Jia Wang, Hai Zhou
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
119views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
IntSim: A CAD tool for optimization of multilevel interconnect networks
– Interconnect issues are becoming increasingly important for ULSI systems. IntSim, an interconnect CAD tool, has been developed to obtain pitches of different wiring levels and ...
Deepak C. Sekar, Azad Naeemi, Reza Sarvari, Jeffre...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Joint logic restructuring and pin reordering against NBTI-induced performance degradation
Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI), a PMOS aging phenomenon causing significant loss on circuit performance and lifetime, has become a critical challenge for temporal re...
Kai-Chiang Wu, Diana Marculescu
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
113views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2004»
14 years 4 months ago
Vdd programmability to reduce FPGA interconnect power
Power is an increasingly important design constraint for FPGAs in nanometer technologies. Because interconnect power is dominant in FPGAs, we design Vdd-programmable interconnect ...
Fei Li, Yan Lin, Lei He