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VLSID
1999
IEEE
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Formal Verification of an ARM Processor
This paper presents a detailed description of the application of a formal verification methodology to an ARM processor. The processor, a hybrid between the ARM7 and the StrongARM ...
Vishnu A. Patankar, Alok Jain, Randal E. Bryant
VLSID
1999
IEEE
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Optimal Retiming for Initial State Computation
Retiming is a transformation that optimizes a sequential circuit by relocating the registers. When the circuit has an initial state, one must compute an equivalent initial state f...
Peichen Pan, Guohua Chen
VLSID
1999
IEEE
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Satisfiability-Based Detailed FPGA Routing
In this paper we address the problem of detailed FPGA routing using Boolean formulation methods. In the context of FPGA routing where routing resources are fixed, Boolean formulat...
Gi-Joon Nam, Karem A. Sakallah, Rob A. Rutenbar
VLSID
1999
IEEE
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Spec-Based Repeater Insertion and Wire Sizing for On-chip Interconnect
Recently Lillis, et al. presented an elegant dynamic programming approach to RC interconnect delay optimization through driver sizing, repeater insertion, and, wire sizing which e...
Noel Menezes, Chung-Ping Chen
VLSID
1999
IEEE
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Improving Area Efficiency of Residue Number System based Implementation of DSP Algorithms
Residue Number System based applications involve modulo-arithmetic which is typically implemented using look-up-tables (LUTs) for a small value of modulus. In this paper, we prese...
M. N. Mahesh, Satrajit Gupta, Mahesh Mehendale
VLSID
1999
IEEE
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A New Approach for CMOS Op-Amp Synthesis
A new approach for CMOS op-amp circuit synthesis has proposed here. The approach is based on the observation that the rst order behavior of a MOS transistor in the saturation regi...
Pradip Mandal, V. Visvanathan
VLSID
1999
IEEE
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New and Exact Filling Algorithms for Layout Density Control
To reduce manufacturing variation due to chemicalmechanical polishing and to improve yield, layout must be made uniform with respect to density criteria. This is achieved by layou...
Andrew B. Kahng, Gabriel Robins, Anish Singh, Alex...
VLSID
1999
IEEE
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Interconnect Optimization Strategies for High-Performance VLSI Designs
Interconnect tuning and repeater insertion are necessary to optimize interconnectdelay, signalperformanceandintegrity, andinterconnectmanufacturability and reliability. Repeater i...
Andrew B. Kahng, Sudhakar Muddu, Egino Sarto
VLSID
1999
IEEE
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Improved Effective Capacitance Computations for Use in Logic and Layout Optimization
We describe an improved iterationless approach for computing the effective capacitance of an interconnect load at a driving gate output. The speed and accuracy of our approach mak...
Andrew B. Kahng, Sudhakar Muddu
VLSID
1999
IEEE
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Exact Output Response Computation of RC Interconnects under Polynomial Input Waveforms
Accurate output response computation of RC interconnects under various input excitations is a key issue in deep submicron delay analysis.In this paper,we present an exact analysis...
Satrajit Gupta, Lalit M. Patnaik