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ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Binning optimization based on SSTA for transparently-latched circuits
With increasing process variation, binning has become an important technique to improve the values of fabricated chips, especially in high performance microprocessors where transpa...
Min Gong, Hai Zhou, Jun Tao, Xuan Zeng
ASPDAC
2006
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Efficient identification of multi-cycle false path
Due to false paths and multi-cycle paths in a circuit, using only topological delay to determine the clock period could be too conservative. In this paper, we address the timing a...
Kai Yang, Kwang-Ting Cheng
DAC
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Clock Period Optimization During Resource Sharing and Assignment
- This paper analyzes the effect of resource sharing and assignment on the clock period of the synthesized circuit. We focus on behavioral specifications with mutually exclusive pa...
Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Sujit Dey, Franc Brglez
ISCAS
1994
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Clock Skew Optimization
This paper addresses the problem of minimizing the clock period of a circuit by optimizingthe clock skews. We incorporate uncertainty factors and present a formulation that ensure...
Rahul B. Deokar, Sachin S. Sapatnekar
ICCD
1997
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Optimal Clock Period Clustering for Sequential Circuits with Retiming
Abstract— In this paper we consider the problem of clustering sequential circuits subject to a bound on the area of each cluster, with the objective of minimizing the clock perio...
Arvind K. Karandikar, Peichen Pan, C. L. Liu
ISPD
2004
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Performance-driven register insertion in placement
As the CMOS technology is scaled into the dimension of nanometer, the clock frequencies and die sizes of ICs are shown to be increasing steadily [5]. Today, global wires that requ...
Dennis K. Y. Tong, Evangeline F. Y. Young