Clock network is a vulnerable victim of variations as well as a main power consumer in many integrated circuits. Recently, link-based non-tree clock network attracts people's...
—Aggressive technology scaling to 45nm and below introduces serious reliability challenges to the design of microprocessors. Since a large fraction of chip area is devoted to on-...
Amin Ansari, Shantanu Gupta, Shuguang Feng, Scott ...
As Si CMOS devices are scaled down into the nanoscale regime, current computer architecture approaches are reaching their practical limits. Future nano-architectures will confront...
Kundan Nepal, R. Iris Bahar, Joseph L. Mundy, Will...
Extreme technology integration in the sub-micron regime comes with a rapid rise in heat dissipation and power density for modern processors. Dynamic voltage scaling is a widely us...
Amin Ansari, Shuguang Feng, Shantanu Gupta, Scott ...
Conventionally, signal net routing is almost always implemented as Steiner trees. However, non-tree topology is often superior on timing performance as well as tolerance to open f...