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DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
A fully polynomial time approximation scheme for timing driven minimum cost buffer insertion
As VLSI technology enters the nanoscale regime, interconnect delay has become the bottleneck of the circuit timing. As one of the most powerful techniques for interconnect optimiz...
Shiyan Hu, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
ELIAD: efficient lithography aware detailed router with compact post-OPC printability prediction
In this paper, we present ELIAD, an efficient lithography aware detailed router to optimize silicon image after optical proximity correction (OPC) in a correct-by-construction man...
Minsik Cho, Kun Yuan, Yongchan Ban, David Z. Pan
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Type-matching clock tree for zero skew clock gating
Clock skew minimization is always very important in the clock tree synthesis. Due to clock gating, the clock tree may include different types of logic gates, e.g., AND gates, OR g...
Chia-Ming Chang, Shih-Hsu Huang, Yuan-Kai Ho, Jia-...
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Multilevel floorplanning/placement for large-scale modules using B*-trees
We present in this paper a multilevel floorplanning/placement framework based on the B*-tree representation, called MB*-tree, to handle the floorplanning and packing for large-sca...
Hsun-Cheng Lee, Yao-Wen Chang, Jer-Ming Hsu, Hanna...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
119views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2006»
14 years 6 months ago
Post-placement voltage island generation
High power consumption will shorten battery life for handheld devices and cause thermal and reliability problems. One way to lower the dynamic power consumption is to reduce the s...
Royce L. S. Ching, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Kevin C...