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SLIP
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Through-silicon-via aware interconnect prediction and optimization for 3D stacked ICs
Individual dies in 3D integrated circuits are connected using throughsilicon-vias (TSVs). TSVs not only increase manufacturing cost, but also incur silicon area, delay, and power ...
Dae Hyun Kim, Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Sung Kyu Lim
ISQED
2010
IEEE
227views Hardware» more  ISQED 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Post-synthesis sleep transistor insertion for leakage power optimization in clock tree networks
Leakage power has grown significantly and is a major challenge in SoC design. Among SoC's components, clock distribution network power accounts for a large portion of chip po...
Houman Homayoun, Shahin Golshan, Eli Bozorgzadeh, ...
ISPD
2009
ACM
141views Hardware» more  ISPD 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
A faster approximation scheme for timing driven minimum cost layer assignment
As VLSI technology moves to the 65nm node and beyond, interconnect delay greatly limits the circuit performance. As a critical component in interconnect synthesis, layer assignmen...
Shiyan Hu, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A fully polynomial time approximation scheme for timing driven minimum cost buffer insertion
As VLSI technology enters the nanoscale regime, interconnect delay has become the bottleneck of the circuit timing. As one of the most powerful techniques for interconnect optimiz...
Shiyan Hu, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert
ISPD
2010
ACM
217views Hardware» more  ISPD 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
ITOP: integrating timing optimization within placement
Timing-driven placement is a critical step in nanometerscale physical synthesis. To improve design timing on a global scale, net-weight based global timing-driven placement is a c...
Natarajan Viswanathan, Gi-Joon Nam, Jarrod A. Roy,...