DAC
2007
ACM
15 years 16 days ago
2007
ACM
With increasing time-to-market pressure and shortening semiconductor product cycles, more and more chips are being designed with library-based methodologies. In spite of this shif...
DAC
2007
ACM
15 years 16 days ago
2007
ACM
We present an efficient technique for finding the mean and variance of the full-chip leakage of a candidate design, while considering logic-structures and both die-to-die and with...
DAC
2007
ACM
15 years 16 days ago
2007
ACM
We propose a design and optimization methodology for high performance and ultra low power digital applications on flexible substrate using Low Temperature Polycrystalline Silicon ...
DAC
2007
ACM
15 years 16 days ago
2007
ACM
It is now common for multimedia applications to be partitioned and mapped onto multiple processing elements of a system-on-chip architecture. An important design constraint in suc...
DAC
2007
ACM
15 years 16 days ago
2007
ACM
It is known that ramp-based models are not sufficient for accurate timing modeling. In this paper, we develop a technique that accurately models the waveforms, and also allows a f...
DAC
2007
ACM
15 years 16 days ago
2007
ACM
Process variation has become a critical problem in modern VLSI fabrication. In the presence of process variation, buffer insertion problem under performance constraints becomes mo...
DAC
2007
ACM
15 years 16 days ago
2007
ACM
In this paper, we present a new multi-packing tree (MP-tree) representation for macro placement to handle mixed-size designs. Based on binary trees, the MP-tree is very efficient,...
DAC
2007
ACM
15 years 16 days ago
2007
ACM
Abstract-- The PPV is a robust phase domain macromodel for oscillators. It has been proven to predict oscillators' responses correctly under small signal perturbations, and ca...
DAC
2007
ACM
15 years 16 days ago
2007
ACM
Due to increased variability trends in nanoscale integrated circuits, statistical circuit analysis has become essential. We present a novel method for post-silicon analysis that g...
DAC
2007
ACM
15 years 16 days ago
2007
ACM
Adaptation in embedded processing is key in order to address efficiency. The concept of extensible embedded processors works well if a few a-priori known hot spots exist. However,...