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...
As power consumption of the clock tree in modern VLSI designs tends to dominate, measures must be taken to keep it under control. This paper introduces an approach for reducing cl...
MiniBit, our automated approach for optimizing bit-widths of fixed-point designs is based on static analysis via affine arithmetic. We describe methods to minimize both the intege...
Dong-U Lee, Altaf Abdul Gaffar, Oskar Mencer, Wayn...
We present an efficient search strategy for satisfiability checking on circuits represented at the register-transfer-level (RTL). We use the RTL circuit structure by extending con...
Ganapathy Parthasarathy, Madhu K. Iyer, Kwang-Ting...
Small, embedded integrated circuits (ICs) such as smart cards are vulnerable to so-called side-channel attacks (SCAs). The attacker can gain information by monitoring the power co...