Circuit marginality failures in high performance VLSI circuits are projected to increase due to shrinking process geometries and high frequency design techniques. Capacitive cross...
Sujit T. Zachariah, Yi-Shing Chang, Sandip Kundu, ...
High-level power design presents a complex, multiobjective problem that involves the simultaneous optimisation of competing criteria such as speed, area and power. It is difficult...
Interconnect has become the dominating factor in determining circuit performance and reliability in deep submicron designs. In this embedded tutorial, we first discuss the trends...
Jason Cong, David Zhigang Pan, Lei He, Cheng-Kok K...
Reconfigurable hardware has become a well-accepted option for implementing digital signal processing (DSP). Traditional devices such as field-programmable gate arrays offer good fi...
The interconnection delay of pre-fabricated design style dominates circuit delay due to the heavily downstream capacitance. Buffer insertion is a widely used technique to split o...