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2006
IEEE
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Fill for shallow trench isolation CMP
Shallow trench isolation (STI) is the mainstream CMOS isolation technology. It uses chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) to remove excess of deposited oxide and attain a planar...
Andrew B. Kahng, Puneet Sharma, Alexander Zelikovs...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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Factor cuts
Enumeration of bounded size cuts is an important step in several logic synthesis algorithms such as technology mapping and re-writing. The standard algorithm does not scale beyond...
Satrajit Chatterjee, Alan Mishchenko, Robert K. Br...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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Soft error reduction in combinational logic using gate resizing and flipflop selection
Soft errors in logic are emerging as a significant reliability problem for VLSI designs. This paper presents novel circuit optimization techniques to mitigate soft error rates (SE...
Rajeev R. Rao, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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Post-placement voltage island generation
High power consumption will shorten battery life for handheld devices and cause thermal and reliability problems. One way to lower the dynamic power consumption is to reduce the s...
Royce L. S. Ching, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Kevin C...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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A network-flow approach to timing-driven incremental placement for ASICs
We present a novel incremental placement methodology called FlowPlace for significantly reducing critical path delays of placed standard-cell circuits. FlowPlace includes: a) a t...
Shantanu Dutt, Huan Ren, Fenghua Yuan, Vishal Suth...