DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
Hot-carrier eects and electromigration are the two important failure mechanisms that signi cantly impact the long-term reliability of high-density VLSI ICs. In this paper, we prese...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
: Electromigration induced degradation in integrated circuits has been accelerated by continuous scaling of device dimensions. We present a methodology for synthesizing high-reliab...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
This paper proposes a state encoding method for asynchronous circuits based on the theory of regions. A region in a Transition System is a set of states that "behave uniforml...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
In this paper, we study the problem of decomposing gates in fanin-unbounded or K-bounded networks such that the K-input LUT mapping solutions computed by a depthoptimal mapper hav...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
In this paper, we present the rst chip-level electrothermal simulator, iCET. For a given chip layout, packaging material, user-speci ed input signal patterns, and thermal boundar...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
1 In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach for estimating the switching activities of the internal nodes in logic circuits. The new approach combines the advantages of the simul...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
In this paper, we describe a technique for power reduction in sequential circuits. Existing signals in the circuit are used to selectively disable some of the registers so that a ...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
Approximation has been shown to be an eective method for reducing the time and space costs of solving various oorplan area minimization problems. In this paper, we present several...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
: While delay modeling of gates with a single switching input has received considerable attention, the case of multiple inputs switching in close temporal proximity is just beginni...