Abstract--To reduce chip-scale topography variation in Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process, dummy fill is widely used to improve the layout density uniformity. Previous res...
Chunyang Feng, Hai Zhou, Changhao Yan, Jun Tao, Xu...
Boolean satisfiability (SAT) based methods have traditionally been popular for formally verifying properties for digital circuits. We present a novel methodology for formulating a...
Saurabh K. Tiwary, Anubhav Gupta, Joel R. Phillips...
Abstract—The high-level synthesis process allows the automatic design and implementation of digital circuits starting from a behavioral description. Evolutionary algorithms are v...
Christian Pilato, Gianluca Palermo, Antonino Tumeo...
The packet routing problem, i.e., the problem to send a given set of unit-size packets through a network on time, belongs to one of the most fundamental routing problems with impor...
Virtual Private Network Design is the following NP-hard problem. We are given a communication network, represented as a weighted graph with thresholds on the nodes which represent...
Friedrich Eisenbrand, Fabrizio Grandoni, Gianpaolo...