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ICCAD
2000
IEEE
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14 years 6 hour ago
Simultaneous Gate Sizing and Fanout Optimization
This paper describes an algorithm for simultaneous gate sizing and fanout optimization along the timing-critical paths in a circuit. First, a continuous-variable delay model that ...
Wei Chen, Cheng-Ta Hsieh, Massoud Pedram
DAC
1995
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Simultaneous Gate and Interconnect Sizing for Circuit-Level Delay Optimization
Abstract—With delays due to the physical interconnect dominating the overall logic path delays, circuit-level delay optimization must take interconnect effects into account. Inst...
Noel Menezes, Satyamurthy Pullela, Lawrence T. Pil...
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
115views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
Timing optimization by restructuring long combinatorial paths
—We present an implementation of an algorithm for constructing provably fast circuits for a class of Boolean functions with input signals that have individual starting times. We ...
Jürgen Werber, Dieter Rautenbach, Christian S...
VLSID
2001
IEEE
169views VLSI» more  VLSID 2001»
14 years 8 months ago
Optimal Assignment of High Threshold Voltage for Synthesizing Dual Threshold CMOS Circuits
Development of the process technology for dual threshold (dual Vth ) CMOS circuit has opened up the possibility of using it to reduce static power in low voltage high performance ...
Nikhil Tripathi, Amit M. Bhosle, Debasis Samanta, ...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Criticality computation in parameterized statistical timing
Chips manufactured in 90 nm technology have shown large parametric variations, and a worsening trend is predicted. These parametric variations make circuit optimization difficult ...
Jinjun Xiong, Vladimir Zolotov, Natesan Venkateswa...