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ICRA
2006
IEEE
134views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
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Validation and Explanation of Waterhammer-based Locomotion
ACT Search and rescue robots often use tethers to provide power and communication, but tethers get caught on debris and small robots have difficulty with the added drag of the tet...
Ross L. Feller, Douglas P. Perrin, Robert D. Howe
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ISPD
2006
ACM
71views Hardware» more  ISPD 2006»
15 years 9 months ago
Satisfying whitespace requirements in top-down placement
In this invited note we outline several algorithms and features appearing in Capo 10, free open-source software for congestion-driven standard cell placement, mixed-size placement...
Jarrod A. Roy, David A. Papa, Aaron N. Ng, Igor L....
CEC
2005
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Crossing the fabrication gap: evolving assembly plans to build 3-D objects
Evolutionary Computation has demonstrated the ability to design novel and interesting objects. Such objects are increasingly being assembled in the physical world, albeit with some...
John Rieffel, Jordan B. Pollack
GLVLSI
2005
IEEE
199views VLSI» more  GLVLSI 2005»
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Interconnect delay minimization through interlayer via placement in 3-D ICs
The dependence of the propagation delay of the interlayer 3-D interconnects on the vertical through via location and length is investigated. For a variable vertical through via lo...
Vasilis F. Pavlidis, Eby G. Friedman
ISPD
2005
ACM
168views Hardware» more  ISPD 2005»
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Capo: robust and scalable open-source min-cut floorplacer
In this invited note we describe Capo, an open-source software tool for cell placement, mixed-size placement and floorplanning with emphasis on routability. Capo is among the fas...
Jarrod A. Roy, David A. Papa, Saurabh N. Adya, Hay...