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ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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CROP: Fast and effective congestion refinement of placement
Modern circuits become harder to route with the ever decreasing design features. Previous routability-driven placement techniques are usually tightly coupled with the underlying p...
Yanheng Zhang, Chris Chu
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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Quantifying robustness metrics in parameterized static timing analysis
Process and environmental variations continue to present significant challenges to designers of high-performance integrated circuits. In the past few years, while much research has...
Khaled R. Heloue, Chandramouli V. Kashyap, Farid N...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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Timing yield-aware color reassignment and detailed placement perturbation for double patterning lithography
Double patterning lithography (DPL) is a likely resolution enhancement technique for IC production in 32nm and below technology nodes. However, DPL gives rise to two independent, ...
Mohit Gupta, Kwangok Jeong, Andrew B. Kahng
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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Power-switch routing for coarse-grain MTCMOS technologies
Multi-threshold CMOS (MTCMOS) is an effective powergating technique to reduce IC's leakage power consumption by turning off idle devices with MTCMOS switches. However, few ex...
Tsun-Ming Tseng, Mango Chia-Tso Chao, Chien Pang L...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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Compacting test vector sets via strategic use of implications
As the complexity of integrated circuits has increased, so has the need for improving testing efficiency. Unfortunately, the types of defects are also becoming more complex, which...
Nuno Alves, Jennifer Dworak, R. Iris Bahar, Kundan...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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Synthesizing complementary circuits automatically
ShengYu Shen, Jianmin Zhang, Ying Qin, Sikun Li
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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A rigorous framework for convergent net weighting schemes in timing-driven placement
We present a rigorous framework that defines a class of net weighting schemes in which unconstrained minimization is successively performed on a weighted objective. We show that, ...
Tony F. Chan, Jason Cong, Eric Radke
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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Mitigation of intra-array SRAM variability using adaptive voltage architecture
SRAM cell design is driven by the need to satisfy static noise margin, write margin and read current margin (RCM) over all cells in the array in an energy-efficient manner. These ...
Ashish Kumar Singh, Ku He, Constantine Caramanis, ...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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Automatic memory partitioning and scheduling for throughput and power optimization
Hardware acceleration is crucial in modern embedded system design to meet the explosive demands on performance and cost. Selected computation kernels for acceleration are usually ...
Jason Cong, Wei Jiang, Bin Liu, Yi Zou