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DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Methodology for Concurrent Fabrication Process/Cell Library Optimization
- This paper presents a methodology for concurrently optimizing an IC fabrication process and a standard cell library in order to maximize overall yield. The approach uses the Conc...
Arun N. Lokanathan, Jay B. Brockman, John E. Renau...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Test Point Insertion: Scan Paths through Combinational Logic
We propose a low-overhead scan design methodology which employs a new test point insertion technique to establish scan paths through the functional logic. The technique re-uses th...
Chih-Chang Lin, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska, Kwang-T...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Address Calculation for Retargetable Compilation and Exploration of Instruction-Set Architectures
The advent of parallel executing Address Calculation Units (ACUs) in Digital Signal Processor (DSP) and Application Specific InstructionSet Processor (ASIP) architectures has made...
Clifford Liem, Pierre G. Paulin, Ahmed Amine Jerra...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Early Power Exploration - A World Wide Web Application
Abstract: Exploration at the earliest stages of the design process is an integral component of effective low-power design. Nevertheless, superficial high-level analyses with insuff...
David Lidsky, Jan M. Rabaey
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A System Design Methodology for Software/Hardware Co-Development of Telecommunication Network Applications
In this paper, we describe a system design methodology for the concurrent development of hybrid software/hardware systems for telecom network applications. This methodology is bas...
Bill Lin
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Boolean Approach to Performance-Directed Technology Mapping for LUT-Based FPGA Designs
Abstract -- This paper presents a novel, Boolean approach to LUTbased FPGA technology mapping targeting high performance. As the core of the approach, we have developed a powerful ...
Christian Legl, Bernd Wurth, Klaus Eckl
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Technique for Synthesizing Distributed Burst-mode Circuits
We offer a technique to partition a centralized control-flow graph to obtain distributed control in the context of asynchronous highlevel synthesis. The technique targets Huffman-...
Prabhakar Kudva, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Hans M. Ja...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Computing Parametric Yield Adaptively Using Local Linear Models
Abstract A divide-and-conquer algorithm for computing the parametric yield of large analog circuits is presented. The algorithm targets applications whose performance spreads could...
Mien Li, Linda S. Milor
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Sparse Image Method for BEM Capacitance Extraction
Boundary element methods (BEM) are often used for complex 3-D capacitance extraction because of their efficiency, ease of data preparation, and automatic handling of open regions. ...
Byron Krauter, Yu Xia, E. Aykut Dengi, Lawrence T....