This paper addresses the issue of timing driven gate duplication for delay optimization. Gate duplication has been used extensively for cutset minimization but the usefulness in m...
As VLSI technology moves to the 65nm node and beyond, interconnect delay greatly limits the circuit performance. As a critical component in interconnect synthesis, layer assignmen...
This paper describes a new force directed global placement algorithm that exploits and extends techniques from two leading placers, Force-directed [12] [26] and Mongrel [22]. It c...
—This paper studies a natural formulation of the timing-driven maze routing problem. A multigraph model appropriate for global routing applications is adopted; the model naturall...
In a typical design
ow, the design may be altered slightly several times after the initial design cycle according to minor changes in the design specication either as a result o...