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CHES
2006
Springer
152views Cryptology» more  CHES 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Security Evaluation of DPA Countermeasures Using Dual-Rail Pre-charge Logic Style
In recent years, some countermeasures against Differential Power Analysis (DPA) at the logic level have been proposed. At CHES 2005 conference, Popp and Mangard proposed a new coun...
Daisuke Suzuki, Minoru Saeki
ISPD
2005
ACM
188views Hardware» more  ISPD 2005»
14 years 8 days ago
A semi-persistent clustering technique for VLSI circuit placement
Placement is a critical component of today's physical synthesis flow with tremendous impact on the final performance of VLSI designs. However, it accounts for a significant p...
Charles J. Alpert, Andrew B. Kahng, Gi-Joon Nam, S...
ISPD
2004
ACM
134views Hardware» more  ISPD 2004»
14 years 4 days ago
Performance-driven register insertion in placement
As the CMOS technology is scaled into the dimension of nanometer, the clock frequencies and die sizes of ICs are shown to be increasing steadily [5]. Today, global wires that requ...
Dennis K. Y. Tong, Evangeline F. Y. Young
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
111views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Exploiting STI stress for performance
— Starting at the 65nm node, stress engineering to improve performance of transistors has been a major industry focus. An intrinsic stress source – shallow trench isolation –...
Andrew B. Kahng, Puneet Sharma, Rasit Onur Topalog...
GLVLSI
2010
IEEE
171views VLSI» more  GLVLSI 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Timing-driven variation-aware nonuniform clock mesh synthesis
Clock skew variations adversely affect timing margins, limiting performance, reducing yield, and may also lead to functional faults. Non-tree clock distribution networks, such as ...
Ameer Abdelhadi, Ran Ginosar, Avinoam Kolodny, Eby...