In Deep Sub-Micron (DSM) designs, performance will depend critically on the latency of long wires. We propose a new synthesis methodology for synchronous systems that makes the de...
Luca P. Carloni, Kenneth L. McMillan, Alexander Sa...
Traditionally, analytic placement used linear or quadratic wirelength objective functions. Minimizing either formulation attracts cells sharing common signals (nets) together. The...
The optimal state minimization problem is to select a reduced state machine having the best logic implementation over all possible state reductions and encodings. A recent algorit...
We give the first study of copy detection techniques for VLSI CAD applications; these techniques are complementary to previous watermarking-based IP protection methods in finding ...
Andrew B. Kahng, Darko Kirovski, Stefanus Mantik, ...
This paper proposes a new bipatition-codec architecture that may reduce power consumption of pipelined circuits. We treat each output value of a pipelined circuit as one state of ...