Increases in delay due to coupling can have a dramatic impact on IC performance for deep submicron technologies. To achieve maximum performance there is a need for analyzing logic...
Paul D. Gross, Ravishankar Arunachalam, Karthik Ra...
Buffer insertion has become a critical step in deep submicron design, and several buffer insertion/sizing algorithms have been proposed in the literature. However, most of these m...
Charles J. Alpert, Anirudh Devgan, Stephen T. Quay
The advent of deep sub-micron technology has exacerbated reliability issues in on-chip interconnects. In particular, single event upsets, such as soft errors, and hard faults are ...
Dongkook Park, Chrysostomos Nicopoulos, Jongman Ki...
As the process technology advances into the deep submicron era, interconnect plays a dominant role in determining circuit performance and signal integrity. Buffer insertion is one...
This paper describes an important new facility for timing-driven design applications within the new CHDStd standard for a SEMATECH design system for large complex chips. We first ...
S. Grout, G. Ledenbach, R. G. Bushroe, P. Fisher, ...