Over the last years, we have witnessed the increased use of Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processors (ASIPs). These ASIPs are processors that have a customizable instruction...
In the nanometer IC design, dummy fill is often performed to improve layout pattern uniformity and the post-CMP quality. However, filling dummies might greatly increase intercon...
Abstract As technology scales down into the nanometer era, delay testing of modern chips has become more and more important. Tests for the path delay fault model are widely used to...
We propose a post-placement physical synthesis algorithm that can apply multiple circuit synthesis and placement transforms on a placed circuit to improve the critical path delay ...
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are an increasingly popular choice of platform for the implementation of cryptographic systems. Until recently, designers using FPGAs had le...