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2002
IEEE
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Optimal Transistor Tapering for High-Speed CMOS Circuits
Transistor tapering is a widely used technique applied to optimize the geometries of CMOS transistors in highperformance circuit design with a view to minimizing the delay of a FE...
Li Ding 0002, Pinaki Mazumder
DATE
2002
IEEE
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Automatic Generation of Common-Centroid Capacitor Arrays with Arbitrary Capacitor Ratio
The key performance of many analog circuits is directly related to accurate capacitor ratios. It is well known that capacitor ratio precision is greatly enhanced by paralleling id...
Mohamed Dessouky, DiaaEldin Sayed
DATE
2002
IEEE
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Power-Manageable Scheduling Technique for Control Dominated High-Level Synthesis
Optimizing power consumption at high-level is a critical step towards power-efficient digital system designs. This paper addresses the power management problem by scheduling a giv...
Chunhong Chen, Majid Sarrafzadeh
DATE
2002
IEEE
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Closed-Form Crosstalk Noise Metrics for Physical Design Applications
In this paper we present efficient closed-form formulas to estimate capacitive coupling-induced crosstalk noise for distributed RC coupling trees. The efficiency of our approach...
Lauren Hui Chen, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska
DATE
2002
IEEE
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Test Planning and Design Space Exploration in a Core-Based Environment
This paper proposes a comprehensive model for test planning in a core-based environment. The main contribution of this work is the use of several types of TAMs and the considerati...
Érika F. Cota, Luigi Carro, Marcelo Lubasze...
DATE
2002
IEEE
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Model Reduction in the Time-Domain Using Laguerre Polynomials and Krylov Methods
We present a new passive model reduction algorithm based on the Laguerre expansion of the time response of interconnect networks. We derive expressions for the Laguerre coefficie...
Yiran Chen, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Cheng-Kok...
DATE
2002
IEEE
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A Burst-Mode Oriented Back-End for the Balsa Synthesis System
This paper introduces several new component clustering techniques for the optimization of asynchronous systems. In particular, novel “Burst-Mode aware” restrictions are impose...
Tiberiu Chelcea, Steven M. Nowick, Andrew Bardsley...
DATE
2002
IEEE
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Exploiting Idle Cycles for Algorithm Level Re-Computing
Although algorithm level re-computing techniques can trade-off the detection capability of Concurrent Error Detection (CED) vs. time overhead, it results in 100% time overhead whe...
Kaijie Wu, Ramesh Karri