DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
Post-silicon validation has recently drawn designers' attention due to its increasing impacts on the VLSI design cycle and cost. One key feature of the post-silicon validatio...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
In this paper, we propose an effective algorithm flow to handle largescale mixed-size placement. The basic idea is to use floorplanning to guide the placement of objects at the gl...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
Elevated chip temperatures are true limiters to the scalability of computing systems. Excessive runtime thermal variations compromise the performance and reliability of integrated...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
Exponentially rising cooling/packaging costs due to high power density call for architectural and software-level thermal management. Dynamic thermal management (DTM) techniques co...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
With aggressive technology scaling, SRAM design has been seriously challenged by the difficulties in analyzing rare failure events. In this paper we propose to create statistical ...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
State elements are increasingly vulnerable to soft errors due to their decreasing size, and the fact that latched errors cannot be completely eliminated by electrical or timing ma...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
Circuit reliability is affected by various fabrication-time and run-time effects. Fabrication-induced process variation has significant impact on circuit performance and reliabilit...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
Abstract--To reduce chip-scale topography variation in Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process, dummy fill is widely used to improve the layout density uniformity. Previous res...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
Logic simulation is a critical component of the design tool flow in modern hardware development efforts. It is used widely ? from high-level descriptions down to gate-level ones ?...