The ability to control the variations in IC fabrication process is rapidly diminishing as feature sizes continue towards the sub-100 nm regime. As a result, there is an increasing...
Sreeja Raj, Sarma B. K. Vrudhula, Janet Meiling Wa...
As a prevalent constraint, sharp slew rate is often required in circuit design which causes a huge demand for buffering resources. This problem requires ultra-fast buffering techn...
Shiyan Hu, Charles J. Alpert, Jiang Hu, Shrirang K...
As we reach the limits of single-core computing, we are promised more and more cores in our systems. Modern architectures include many performance counters per core, but few or no...
Paul E. West, Yuval Peress, Gary S. Tyson, Sally A...
This paper presents several important enhancements to the recently published multilevel placement package mPL [12]. The improvements include (i) unconstrained quadratic relaxation...
Tony F. Chan, Jason Cong, Tim Kong, Joseph R. Shin...
We have developed a generic integer linear programming(ILP)based engineering change(EC) methodology. The EC methodology has three components: enabling, fast, and preserving. Enabl...
Farinaz Koushanfar, Jennifer L. Wong, Jessica Feng...