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ISCAS
2005
IEEE
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Timing-driven global routing with efficient buffer insertion
-- Timing optimization is an important goal of global routing in deep submicron era. To guarantee the timing performance of the circuit, merely adopting topology optimization becom...
Jingyu Xu, Xianlong Hong, Tong Jing
ICCD
2005
IEEE
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Variability-Driven Buffer Insertion Considering Correlations
— In this work we investigate the buffer insertion problem under process variations. Sub 100-nm fabrication process causes significant variations on many design parameters. We p...
Azadeh Davoodi, Ankur Srivastava
ASPDAC
2006
ACM
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An O(mn) time algorithm for optimal buffer insertion of nets with m sinks
— Buffer insertion is an effective technique to reduce interconnect delay. In this paper, we give a simple O(mn) time algorithm for optimal buffer insertion, where m is the numbe...
Zhuo Li, Weiping Shi
ISVLSI
2008
IEEE
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A Fuzzy Approach for Variation Aware Buffer Insertion and Driver Sizing
In nanometer regime, the effects of process variations are dominating circuit performance, power and reliability of circuits. Hence, it is important to properly manage variation e...
Venkataraman Mahalingam, Nagarajan Ranganathan
ISQED
2009
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Simultaneous buffer and interlayer via planning for 3D floorplanning
As technology advances, the interconnect delay among modules plays dominant role in chip performance. Buffer insertion, as a traditional approach to reduce wire delay in 2D ICs, i...
Xu He, Sheqin Dong, Yuchun Ma, Xianlong Hong
DAC
2009
ACM
15 years 13 days ago
A fully polynomial time approximation scheme for timing driven minimum cost buffer insertion
As VLSI technology enters the nanoscale regime, interconnect delay has become the bottleneck of the circuit timing. As one of the most powerful techniques for interconnect optimiz...
Shiyan Hu, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert