Designing applications with timeliness requirements in environments of uncertain synchrony is known to be a difficult problem. In this paper, we follow the perspective of timing ...
This paper presents a decomposition method for speedindependent circuit design that is capable of significantly reducing the cost of synthesis. In particular, this method synthesi...
— Conventional methods for optimal sizing of wires and transistors use linear resistor-capacitor (RC) circuit models and the Elmore delay as a measure of signal delay. If the RC ...
Lieven Vandenberghe, Stephen P. Boyd, Abbas A. El ...
— We introduce a remote activation scheme that aims to protect integrated circuits (IC) intellectual property (IP) against piracy. Remote activation enables designers to lock eac...
This paper presents a novel technique to evaluate the noncontrollability measures of state registers for partial scan design. Our model uses implicit techniques for finite state ma...