1 In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach for estimating the switching activities of the internal nodes in logic circuits. The new approach combines the advantages of the simul...
David Ihsin Cheng, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Deborah C. Wa...
Thermal effects are becoming a limiting factor in highperformance circuit design due to the strong temperaturedependence of leakage power, circuit performance, IC package cost and...
Zhijian Lu, Wei Huang, John Lach, Mircea R. Stan, ...
The need to perform early design studies that combine architectural simulation with power estimation has become critical as power has become a design constraint whose importance h...
Nam Sung Kim, Taeho Kgil, Valeria Bertacco, Todd M...
— Cycle-accurate functional descriptions (CAFDs) are being widely adopted in integrated circuit (IC) design flows. Power estimation can potentially benefit from the inherent in...
Lin Zhong, Srivaths Ravi, Anand Raghunathan, Niraj...
In this paper, we present a new voltage IR drop analysis approach for large on-chip power delivery networks. The new approach is based on recently proposed sampling based reductio...