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ICCAD
2003
IEEE
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Manufacturing-Aware Physical Design
Ultra-deep submicron manufacturability impacts physical design (PD) through complex layout rules and large guardbands for process variability; this creates new requirements for ne...
Puneet Gupta, Andrew B. Kahng
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
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Formal Methods for Dynamic Power Management
Dynamic Power Management or DPM refers to the problem of judicious application of various low power techniques based on runtime conditions in an embedded system to minimize the to...
Rajesh K. Gupta, Sandy Irani, Sandeep K. Shukla
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
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Efficient Thermal Placement of Standard Cells in 3D ICs using a Force Directed Approach
As the technology node progresses, thermal problems are becoming more prominent especially in the developing technology of three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits. The thermal ...
Brent Goplen, Sachin S. Sapatnekar
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
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Simultaneous Analytic Area and Power Optimization for Repeater Insertion
We present an analytic formula for repeater insertion in global interconnects that simultaneously minimizes silicon device area and power dissipation for a given performance qrj,/...
Giuseppe S. Garcea, N. P. van der Meijs, Ralph H. ...
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
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Fast, Accurate Static Analysis for Fixed-Point Finite-Precision Effects in DSP Designs
Translating digital signal processing (DSP) software into its finite-precision hardware implementation is often a timeconsuming task. We describe a new static analysis technique ...
Claire Fang Fang, Rob A. Rutenbar, Tsuhan Chen
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
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Algorithm for Achieving Minimum Energy Consumption in CMOS Circuits Using Multiple Supply and Threshold Voltages at the Module L
This paper proposes an optimum methodology for assigning supply and threshold voltages to modules in a CMOS circuit such that the overall energy consumption is minimized for a giv...
Yuvraj Singh Dhillon, Abdulkadir Utku Diril, Abhij...
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
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Block-based Static Timing Analysis with Uncertainty
Static timing analysis is a critical step in design of any digital integrated circuit. Technology and design trends have led to significant increase in environmental and process v...
Anirudh Devgan, Chandramouli V. Kashyap
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
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A Sum-over-Paths Impulse-Response Moment-Extraction Algorithm for IC-Interconnect Networks: Verification, Coupled RC Lines
We have created a stochastic impulse-response (IR) momentextraction algorithm for RC circuit networks. It employs a newly discovered Feynman Sum-over-Paths Postulate. Full paralle...
Yannick L. Le Coz, Dhivya Krishna, Dusan M. Petran...
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
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Optimality and Stability Study of Timing-Driven Placement Algorithms
This work studies the optimality and stability of timing-driven placement algorithms. The contributions of this work include two parts: 1) We develop an algorithm for generating s...
Jason Cong, Michail Romesis, Min Xie
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
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Large-Scale Circuit Placement: Gap and Promise
Placement is one of the most important steps in the RTLto-GDSII synthesis process, as it directly defines the interconnects, which have become the bottleneck in circuit and syste...
Jason Cong, Tim Kong, Joseph R. Shinnerl, Min Xie,...