In deep submicron technology, IR-drop and clock skew issues become more crucial to the functionality of chip. This paper presents a oorplan-based power and clock distribution meth...
Routability optimization has become a major concern in the physical design cycle of VLSI circuits. Due to the recent advances in VLSI technology, interconnect has become a dominan...
— Fast and accurate routing congestion estimation is essential for optimizations such as floorplanning, placement, buffering, and physical synthesis that need to avoid routing c...
Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert, Stephen T. Quay, Sachi...
Wirelength estimation techniques typically contain a site density function that enumerates all possible path sites for each wirelength in an architecture and an occupation probabil...
Chung-Kuan Cheng, Andrew B. Kahng, Bao Liu, Dirk S...
Shrinking process geometries and the increasing use of IP components in SoC designs give rise to new problems in routing and buffer insertion. A particular concern is that cross-c...
Soha Hassoun, Charles J. Alpert, Meera Thiagarajan