With the increasing size and sophistication of circuits and specifically in the presence of IP blocks, new wirelength estimation methods are needed in the design flow of large-sca...
Taraneh Taghavi, Ani Nahapetian, Majid Sarrafzadeh
— Y -interconnects for VLSI chips are based on the use of global and semi-global wiring in only 0◦ , 60◦ , and 120◦ . Though X-interconnects are fast replacing the traditio...
Radio network design (RND) is a fundamental problem in cellular networks for telecommunications. In these networks, the terrain must be covered by a set of base stations (or anten...
Antonio J. Nebro, Enrique Alba, Guillermo Molina, ...
As the CMOS technology is scaled into the dimension of nanometer, the clock frequencies and die sizes of ICs are shown to be increasing steadily [5]. Today, global wires that requ...
In this paper, we present the parallelization of tabu search on a network of workstations using PVM. Two parallelization strategies are integrated: functional decomposition strate...
Ahmad A. Al-Yamani, Sadiq M. Sait, Habib Youssef, ...