ISPD
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
Thermal/power issues have become increasingly important with more and more transistors being put on a single chip. Many dynamic thermal/power management techniques have been propo...
ISPD
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
Timing-driven placement is a critical step in nanometerscale physical synthesis. To improve design timing on a global scale, net-weight based global timing-driven placement is a c...
ISPD
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
ISPD
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
As the thermal wall becomes the dominant factor limiting VLSI circuit performance, and the interconnect wires become the primary power consumer, power efficiency of onchip data th...
ISPD
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
ISPD
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
Standard cells are fundamental circuit building blocks designed at very early design stages. Nanometer standard cells are prone to lithography proximity and process variations. Ho...
ISPD
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
ISPD
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
In the nanometer IC design, dummy fill is often performed to improve layout pattern uniformity and the post-CMP quality. However, filling dummies might greatly increase intercon...
ISPD
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
This paper presents SafeChoice (SC), a novel clustering algorithm for wirelength-driven placement. Unlike all previous approaches, SC is proposed based on a fundamental theorem, s...
ISPD
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
NBTI (Negative Bias Temperature Instability) has emerged as the dominant failure mechanism for PMOS in nanometer IC designs. However, its impact on one of the most important compo...