This tutorial present the key aspects of design challenges and its solutions that are being experienced in VLSI design in the era of nano technology. The focus will be on design c...
PPP is a Web-based simulation and synthesis environment for low-power design. In this paper we describe the gate-level simulation engine of PPP, that achieves accuracy always with...
Alessandro Bogliolo, Luca Benini, Bruno Ricc&ograv...
CAD tool interoperability issues are a recurring impediment to constructing a design methodology, especially if the methodology incorporates point tools from several vendors. Failu...
Mike Murray, Uwe B. Meding, Bill Berg, Yatin Trive...
Clock skew minimization is always very important in the clock tree synthesis. Due to clock gating, the clock tree may include different types of logic gates, e.g., AND gates, OR g...
This tutorial paper surveys the potential implications of subwavelength optical lithography for new tools and flows in the interface between layout design and manufacturability. W...