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GLVLSI
2009
IEEE
123views VLSI» more  GLVLSI 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Power efficient tree-based crosslinks for skew reduction
Clock distribution networks are an important design issue that is highly dependent on delay variations and load imbalances, while requiring power efficiency. Existing mesh solutio...
Inna Vaisband, Ran Ginosar, Avinoam Kolodny, Eby G...
SLIP
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Integrated interlayer via planning and pin assignment for 3D ICs
As technology advances, 3D ICs are introduced for alleviating the interconnect problem coming with shrinking feature size and increasing integration density. In 3D ICs, one of the...
Xu He, Sheqin Dong, Xianlong Hong, Satoshi Goto
SLIP
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A tale of two nets: studies of wirelength progression in physical design
At every stage in physical design, engineers are faced with many different objectives and tools to develop, optimize, and evaluate their design. Each choice of a tool or an objec...
Andrew B. Kahng, Sherief Reda
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Matching-based minimum-cost spare cell selection for design changes
Metal-only ECO realizes the last-minute design changes by revising the photomasks of metal layers only. This task is challenging because the pre-injected spare cells are limited b...
Iris Hui-Ru Jiang, Hua-Yu Chang, Liang-Gi Chang, H...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
119views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2006»
14 years 4 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...