In high speed digital circuits, the inductive effect is more dominant compared to capacitive effect. In particular, as the technology is shrinking, the spacing between interconnec...
K. S. Sainarayanan, J. V. R. Ravindra, M. B. Srini...
Power grid networks in VLSI circuits are required to provide adequate input supply to ensure reliable performance. In this paper, we propose algorithms to find the placement of pow...
This paper proposes a fast decoupling capacitance (decap) allocation and budgeting algorithm for both early stage decap estimation and later stage decap minimization in today’s ...
Hang Li, Zhenyu Qi, Sheldon X.-D. Tan, Lifeng Wu, ...
- The Multi-Threshold CMOS (MTCMOS) technology has become a popular technique for standby power reduction. This technology utilizes high-Vth sleep transistors to reduce subthreshol...
In high-performance VLSI circuits, the on-chip power densities are playing dominant role due to increased scaling of technology, increasing number of components, frequency and ban...