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DAC
2009
ACM
15 years 13 days ago
Efficient SAT solving for non-clausal formulas using DPLL, graphs, and watched cuts
Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solvers are used heavily in hardware and software verification tools for checking satisfiability of Boolean formulas. Most state-of-the-art SAT solver...
Himanshu Jain, Edmund M. Clarke
DAC
2009
ACM
15 years 13 days ago
Exploring serial vertical interconnects for 3D ICs
Three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D ICs) offer a promising solution to overcome the on-chip communication bottleneck and improve performance over traditional two-dimensional...
Sudeep Pasricha
DAC
2009
ACM
15 years 13 days ago
Thermal-driven analog placement considering device matching
With the thermal effect, improper analog placements may degrade circuit performance because the thermal impact from power devices can affect electrical characteristics of the ther...
Po-Hung Lin, Hongbo Zhang, Martin D. F. Wong, Yao-...
DAC
2009
ACM
15 years 13 days ago
Contract-based system-level composition of analog circuits
Efficient system-level design is increasingly relying on hierarchical design-space exploration, as well as compositional methods, to shorten time-to-market, leverage design re-use...
Xuening Sun, Pierluigi Nuzzo, Chang-Ching Wu, Albe...
DAC
2009
ACM
15 years 13 days ago
Thermal-aware data flow analysis
This paper suggests that the thermal state of a processor can be approximated using data flow analysis. The results of this analysis can be used to evaluate the efficacy of therma...
David Atienza, José Luis Ayala, Philip Bris...
DAC
2009
ACM
15 years 13 days ago
Nanoscale digital computation through percolation
In this study, we apply a novel synthesis technique for implementing robust digital computation in nanoscale lattices with random interconnects: percolation theory on random graph...
Mustafa Altun, Marc D. Riedel, Claudia Neuhauser
DAC
2009
ACM
15 years 13 days ago
Human computing for EDA
Electronic design automation is a field replete with challenging ? and often intractable ? problems to be solved over very large instances. As a result, the field of design automa...
Andrew DeOrio, Valeria Bertacco
DAC
2009
ACM
15 years 13 days ago
The day Sherlock Holmes decided to do EDA
Semiconductor design companies are in a continuous search for design tools that address the ever increasing chip design complexity coupled with strict time-to-market schedules and...
Andreas G. Veneris, Sean Safarpour
DAC
2009
ACM
15 years 13 days ago
Debugging strategies for mere mortals
Recent improvements in design verification strive to automate error detection and greatly enhance engineers' ability to detect functional errors. However, the process of diag...
Valeria Bertacco
DAC
2009
ACM
15 years 13 days ago
Power modeling of graphical user interfaces on OLED displays
Emerging organic light-emitting diode (OLED)-based displays obviate external lighting; and consume drastically different power when displaying different colors, due to their emiss...
Mian Dong, Yung-Seok Kevin Choi, Lin Zhong