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ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Optimum Prefix Adders in a Comprehensive Area, Timing and Power Design Space
Parallel prefix adder is the most flexible and widely-used binary adder for ASIC designs. Many high-level synthesis techniques have been developed to find optimal prefix structures...
Jianhua Liu, Yi Zhu, Haikun Zhu, Chung-Kuan Cheng,...
ISVLSI
2003
IEEE
97views VLSI» more  ISVLSI 2003»
14 years 20 days ago
Q-Tree: A New Iterative Improvement Approach for Buffered Interconnect Optimization
The “chicken-egg” dilemma between VLSI interconnect timing optimization and delay calculation suggests an iterative approach. We separate interconnect timing transformation as...
Andrew B. Kahng, Bao Liu
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
124views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
Combinatorial algorithms for fast clock mesh optimization
We present a fast and efficient combinatorial algorithm to simultaneously identify the candidate locations as well as the sizes of the buffers driving a clock mesh. Due to the hi...
Ganesh Venkataraman, Zhuo Feng, Jiang Hu, Peng Li
ISCAS
2005
IEEE
138views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Transition time bounded low-power clock tree construction
— Recently power becomes a significant issue in clock network design for high-performance ICs because the clock network consumes a large portion of the total power in the whole s...
Min Pan, Chris C. N. Chu, J. Morris Chang
MICRO
2006
IEEE
98views Hardware» more  MICRO 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
ViChaR: A Dynamic Virtual Channel Regulator for Network-on-Chip Routers
The advent of deep sub-micron technology has recently highlighted the criticality of the on-chip interconnects. As diminishing feature sizes have led to increases in global wiring...
Chrysostomos Nicopoulos, Dongkook Park, Jongman Ki...