The relentless push for high performance in custom digital circuits has led to renewed emphasis on circuit optimization or tuning. The parameters of the optimization are typically...
A common approach to performance optimization of circuits focuses on re-synthesis to reduce the length of all paths greater than the desired delay . We describe a new delay optimi...
A non-blocking protocol that allows real-time tasks to share data in a multiprocessor system is presented in this paper. The protocol gives the means to concurrent real-time tasks...
We propose a timing optimization technique for a complex finite state machine that consists of not only random logic but also data operators. In such a design, the timing critical...
We consider the problem of finding an optimal clock schedule, i.e. optimal arrival times for clock signals at latches of a VLSI chip. We describe a general model which includes al...