A new method for hierarchical fault simulation based on multi-level Decision Diagrams (DD) is proposed. We suppose that a register transfer (RT) level information along with gate-...
Interconnect optimization for VLSI circuits has received wide attention. To model routing surfaces, multiple circuit layers are freabstracted as a single rectilinear plane, ignori...
A hierarchical scheme with cells and modules is crucial for managing design complexity during a large integrated circuit design. We present a methodology for thermal aware cell-ba...
Abstract-- In nanometer-scale VLSI technologies, several interconnect issues like routing congestion and interconnect delay have become the main concerns in placement. However, all...
The relative tolerances for interconnect and device parameter variations have not scaled with feature sizes which have brought about significant performance variability. As we sca...