—Hardware Intellectual Property (IP) cores have emerged as an integral part of modern System–on–Chip (SoC) designs. However, IP vendors are facing major challenges to protect...
— Modern sub-micron VLSI designs include huge power grids that are required to distribute large amounts of current, at increasingly lower voltages. The resulting voltage drop on ...
Retiming is a widely investigated technique for performance optimization. It performs powerful modifications on a circuit netlist. However, often it is not clear, whether the pred...
SAT-based automatic test pattern generation has several advantages compared to conventional structural procedures, yet often yields too large test sets. We present a dynamic compa...
Alejandro Czutro, Ilia Polian, Piet Engelke, Sudha...
Active decoupling capacitors (decaps) are more effective than passive decaps at reducing local IR-drop problems in the power distribution network. In the basic active decap, two p...