Process variation has become a critical problem in modern VLSI fabrication. In the presence of process variation, buffer insertion problem under performance constraints becomes mo...
We describe the verification of the IM: a large, complex (12,000 gates and 1100 latches) circuit that detects and marks the boundaries between Intel architecture (IA-32) instructi...
Mark Aagaard, Robert B. Jones, Carl-Johan H. Seger
- Closed form solutions for the 50% delay, rise time, overshoots, and settling time of signals in an RLC tree are presented. These solutions have the same accuracy characteristics ...
Many tasks in CAD, such as equivalence checking, property checking, logic synthesis, and false paths analysis require efficient Boolean reasoning for problems derived from circuit...
As timing requirements in today’s advanced VLSI designs become more aggressive, the need for automated tools to diagnose timing failures increases. This work presents two such a...
Jiang Brandon Liu, Magdy S. Abadir, Andreas G. Ven...