This paper presents an efficient approach to perform global interconnect sizing and spacing (GISS) for multiple nets to minimize interconnect delays with consideration of couplin...
Jason Cong, Lei He, Cheng-Kok Koh, David Zhigang P...
This paper is concerned with approximate delay computation algorithms for combinational circuits. As a result of intensive research in the early 90’s [3, 8] efficient tools exi...
Yuji Kukimoto, Wilsin Gosti, Alexander Saldanha, R...
Technology-independenttimingoptimizationis animportantproblem in logic synthesis. Although many promising techniques have been proposed in the past, unfortunately they are quite s...
Interconnect has become the dominating factor in determining circuit performance and reliability in deep submicron designs. In this embedded tutorial, we first discuss the trends...
Jason Cong, David Zhigang Pan, Lei He, Cheng-Kok K...
The circuit tuning problem is best approached by means of gradient-based nonlinear optimization algorithms. For large circuits, gradient computation can be the bottleneck in the o...
Andrew R. Conn, Ruud A. Haring, Chandramouli Viswe...