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ICCAD
2010
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Low-power clock trees for CPUs
Clock networks contribute a significant fraction of dynamic power and can be a limiting factor in high-performance CPUs and SoCs. The need for multi-objective optimization over a l...
Dongjin Lee, Myung-Chul Kim, Igor L. Markov
ISPD
2010
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
A statistical framework for designing on-chip thermal sensing infrastructure in nano-scale systems
Thermal/power issues have become increasingly important with more and more transistors being put on a single chip. Many dynamic thermal/power management techniques have been propo...
Yufu Zhang, Bing Shi, Ankur Srivastava
ISPD
2010
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Density gradient minimization with coupling-constrained dummy fill for CMP control
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...
Huang-Yu Chen, Szu-Jui Chou, Yao-Wen Chang
ISPD
2010
ACM
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ITOP: integrating timing optimization within placement
Timing-driven placement is a critical step in nanometerscale physical synthesis. To improve design timing on a global scale, net-weight based global timing-driven placement is a c...
Natarajan Viswanathan, Gi-Joon Nam, Jarrod A. Roy,...
ICCAD
2010
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Local clock skew minimization using blockage-aware mixed tree-mesh clock network
Clock network construction is one key problem in high performance VLSI design. Reducing the clock skew variation is one of the most important objectives during clock network synthe...
Linfu Xiao, Zigang Xiao, Zaichen Qian, Yan Jiang, ...