As the scale and complexity of VLSI circuits increase, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools become much more sophisticated and are held to increasing standards of quality. New...
Abstract—Integrated power supplies are critical building blocks in stateof-the-art portable applications, where they efficiently and accurately transform a battery supply into va...
During pseudorandom testing, a significant amount of energy and test application time is wasted for generating and for applying “useless” test vectors that do not contribute t...
Sheng Zhang, Sharad C. Seth, Bhargab B. Bhattachar...
— The recent popularity of 3D IC technology stems from its enhanced performance capabilities and reduced wirelength. However, wire congestion and thermal issues are exacerbated d...
This paper presents an efficient heuristic algorithm to design a power distribution network of a chip by employing a successive partitioning and grid refinement scheme. In an it...