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DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Keeping hot chips cool
With 90nm CMOS in production and 65nm testing in progress, power has been pushed to the forefront of design metrics. This paper will outline practical techniques that are used to ...
Ruchir Puri, Leon Stok, Subhrajit Bhattacharya
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The Titanic: what went wrong!
Sani R. Nassif, Paul S. Zuchowski, Claude Moughann...
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Are there economic benefits in DFM?
A fabless company perspective is presented on the roles of the foundries, design entities and EDA providers in the DFM arena, and the requirements for measurement of the economic ...
Matt Nowak, Riko Radojcic
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
On the need for statistical timing analysis
Traditional corner analysis fails to guarantee a target yield for a given performance metric. However, recently proposed solutions, in the form of statistical timing analysis, whi...
Farid N. Najm
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
BEOL variability and impact on RC extraction
N. S. Nagaraj, Tom Bonifield, Abha Singh, Clive Bi...
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Hybrid simulation for embedded software energy estimation
Software energy estimation is a critical step in the design of energyefficient embedded systems. Instruction-level simulation techniques, despite several advances, remain too slo...
Anish Muttreja, Anand Raghunathan, Srivaths Ravi, ...
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Minimizing peak current via opposite-phase clock tree
Although a lot of research efforts have been made in the minimization of the total power consumption caused by the clock tree, no attention has been paid to the minimization of th...
Yow-Tyng Nieh, Shih-Hsu Huang, Sheng-Yu Hsu
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A watermarking system for IP protection by a post layout incremental router
In this paper, we introduce a new watermarking system for IP protection on post-layout design phase. Firstly the copyright is encrypted by DES (Data Encryption Standard) and then ...
Tingyuan Nie, Tomoo Kisaka, Masahiko Toyonaga
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Deterministic approaches to analog performance space exploration (PSE)
Daniel Mueller, Guido Stehr, Helmut E. Graeb, Ulf ...