Abstract— As technology scales to 0.13 micron and below, designs are requiring buffers to be inserted on interconnects of even moderate length for both critical paths and fixing...
Zhuo Li, Cliff C. N. Sze, Charles J. Alpert, Jiang...
Buffer insertion has become a critical step in deep submicron design, and several buffer insertion/sizing algorithms have been proposed in the literature. However, most of these m...
Charles J. Alpert, Anirudh Devgan, Stephen T. Quay
Closed formed expressions for buffered interconnect delay approximation have been around for some time. However, previous approaches assume that buffers are free to be placed anyw...
Charles J. Alpert, Jiang Hu, Sachin S. Sapatnekar,...
Most existing buffering algorithms neglect the impact of inductance on circuit performance, which causes large error in circuit analysis and optimization. Even for the approaches...
A comprehensive probabilistic methodology is proposed to solve the buffer insertion problem with the consideration of process variations. In contrast to a recent work, we point o...