In deep submicron VLSI circuits, interconnect reliability due to electromigration and thermal effects is fast becoming a serious design issue particularly for long signal lines. T...
With the reducing distances between wires in deep submicron technologies, coupling capacitances are becoming significant as their magnitude becomes comparable to the area capacita...
Martin Kuhlmann, Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Keshab K. P...
As the process technology advances into the deep submicron era, interconnect plays a dominant role in determining circuit performance and signal integrity. Buffer insertion is one...
As the process technology advances into the deep submicron era, interconnect plays a dominant role in determining circuit performance. Buffer insertion/sizing and wire sizing are ...
Nicholas Chia-Yuan Chang, Yao-Wen Chang, Iris Hui-...
Increasing complexity of the functionalities and the resultant growth in number of gates integrated in a chip coupled with shrinking geometries and short cycle time requirements br...
Karanth Shankaranarayana, Soujanna Sarkar, R. Venk...