ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
A priori wirelength estimation is concerned with predicting various wirelength characteristics before placement. In this work we propose a novel, accurate estimator of net lengths...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
— Yield improvement through exploiting fault-free sections of defective chips is a well-known technique [1][2]. The idea is to partition the circuitry of a chip in a way that fau...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Based on a timing yield model, a statistical static timing analysis technique is proposed. This technique preserves existing methodology by selecting a “device file setting” ...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
— As technology scales into the sub-90nm domain, manufacturing variations become an increasingly significant portion of circuit delay. As a result, delays must be modeled as sta...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
— Nanoscale technologies provide both challenges and opportunities. We show that the issues and potential solutions facing designers are technology independent and arise mainly f...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
As technology scales, the shrinking wire width increases the interconnect resistivity, while the decreasing interconnect spacing significantly increases the coupling capacitance. ...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
We describe an interconnect scheme based on lossy transmission lines, compare this scheme with traditional bus based links, and present performance data. Unlike some other schemes...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
— In this paper we propose an exact algorithm that maximizes the sharing of partial terms in Multiple Constant Multiplication (MCM) operations. We model this problem as a Boolean...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
— The flip-chip package gives the highest chip density of any packaging method to support the pad-limited Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designs. In this paper,...