With the advent of deep sub-micron (DSM) era, floorplanning has become increasingly important in physical design process. In this paper we clarify a misunderstanding in using Lag...
Double Patterning Lithography (DPL) is one of the few hopeful candidate solutions for the lithography for CMOS process beyond 45nm. DPL assigns the patterns less than a certain di...
This paper presents a novel synthesis algorithm that reduces the area needed for implementing multiplexers on an FPGA by an average of 18%. This is achieved by reducing the number...
Individual dies in 3D integrated circuits are connected using throughsilicon-vias (TSVs). TSVs not only increase manufacturing cost, but also incur silicon area, delay, and power ...
With increasing process variation, binning has become an important technique to improve the values of fabricated chips, especially in high performance microprocessors where transpa...