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ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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13 years 6 months ago
DynaTune: Circuit-level optimization for timing speculation considering dynamic path behavior
Traditional circuit design focuses on optimizing the static critical paths no matter how infrequently these paths are exercised dynamically. Circuit optimization is then tuned to ...
Lu Wan, Deming Chen
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
105views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2007»
14 years 21 days ago
An Efficient Computation of Statistically Critical Sequential Paths Under Retiming
Abstract-- In this paper we present the Statistical Retimingbased Timing Analysis (SRTA) algorithm. The goal is to compute the timing slack distribution for the nodes in the timing...
Mongkol Ekpanyapong, Xin Zhao, Sung Kyu Lim
ISCAS
2003
IEEE
111views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2003»
14 years 2 months ago
An efficient transistor optimizer for custom circuits
We present an equation-based transistor size optimizer that minimizes delay of custom circuits. Our method uses static timing analysis to find the critical paths and numerical met...
Xiao Yan Yu, Vojin G. Oklobdzija, William W. Walke...
DAC
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Global Critical Path: A Tool for System-Level Timing Analysis
An effective method for focusing optimization effort on the most important parts of a design is to examine those elements on the critical path. Traditionally, the critical path is...
Girish Venkataramani, Mihai Budiu, Tiberiu Chelcea...
DATE
2007
IEEE
130views Hardware» more  DATE 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
A novel criticality computation method in statistical timing analysis
Abstract— The impact of process variations increases as technology scales to nanometer region. Under large process variations, the path and arc/node criticality [18] provide effe...
Feng Wang 0004, Yuan Xie, Hai Ju