We empirically assess the implications of fixed terminals for hypergraph partitioning heuristics. Our experimental testbed incorporates a leading-edge multilevel hypergraph partit...
Andrew E. Caldwell, Andrew B. Kahng, Igor L. Marko...
We propose a new VLSI layout methodology which addresses the main problems faced in Deep Sub-Micron (DSM) integrated circuit design. Our layout "fabric" scheme eliminate...
Sunil P. Khatri, Amit Mehrotra, Robert K. Brayton,...
At-speed testing of GHz processors using external testers may not be technically and economically feasible. Hence, there is an emerging need for low-cost, high-quality self-test m...
Li Chen, Sujit Dey, Pablo Sanchez, Krishna Sekar, ...
Recently, intellectual property protection (IPP) techniques attracted a great deal of attention from semiconductor, system integration and software companies. A number of watermar...
Boolean Satisfiability is probably the most studied of combinatorial optimization/search problems. Significant effort has been devoted to trying to provide practical solutions to ...
Matthew W. Moskewicz, Conor F. Madigan, Ying Zhao,...