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SAT
2010
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
Exploiting Circuit Representations in QBF Solving
Previous work has shown that circuit representations can be exploited in QBF solvers to obtain useful performance improvements. In this paper we examine some additional techniques ...
Alexandra Goultiaeva, Fahiem Bacchus
ICCAD
2008
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Network flow-based power optimization under timing constraints in MSV-driven floorplanning
Abstract— Power consumption has become a crucial problem in modern circuit design. Multiple Supply Voltage (MSV) design is introduced to provide higher flexibility in controllin...
Qiang Ma, Evangeline F. Y. Young
ITC
1992
IEEE
90views Hardware» more  ITC 1992»
13 years 11 months ago
ScanBIST: A Multi-frequency Scan-based BIST Method
This paper presents a BIST technique that allows the synchronization of multiple scan chains clocked at different frequencies. The technique is used to improve performance testing...
Benoit Nadeau-Dostie, Dwayne Burek, Abu S. M. Hass...
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Post-layout logic optimization of domino circuits
Logic duplication, a commonly used synthesis technique to remove trapped inverters in reconvergent paths of Domino circuits, incurs high area and power penalties. In this paper, w...
Aiqun Cao, Cheng-Kok Koh
SBCCI
2005
ACM
111views VLSI» more  SBCCI 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Total leakage power optimization with improved mixed gates
Gate oxide tunneling current Igate and sub-threshold current Isub dominate the leakage of designs. The latter depends on threshold voltage Vth while Igate vary with the thickness ...
Frank Sill, Frank Grassert, Dirk Timmermann