- This paper presents a precomputation-based guarding technique to reduce both dynamic and static power consumptions in CMOS VLSI circuits. More precisely, a high threshold sleep t...
This paper presents a novel approach to reducing the complexity of the transient linear circuit analysis for a hybrid structured clock network. Topology reduction is first used to...
Yi Zou, Yici Cai, Qiang Zhou, Xianlong Hong, Sheld...
ACG (Adjacent Constraint Graph) is invented as a general floorplan representation. It has advantages of both adjacency graph and constraint graph of a floorplan: edges in an ACG...
We present a method for incorporating crosstalk reduction criteria into global routing under an innovative power supply architecture, while considering the constraints imposed by ...
A cache access time model, PRACTICS (PRedictor of Access and Cycle TIme for Cache Stack), has been developed to optimize the memory array architecture for the minimum access and c...
Annie (Yujuan) Zeng, Kenneth Rose, Ronald J. Gutma...
In modern technologies, process variations can be quite substantial, often causing design timing failures. It is essential that those errors be correctly and quickly diagnosed. In...
Potential slack is an effective metric of circuit’s possible performance improvement. It is equal to the maximal amount of slack that can be potentially used for optimization. I...
Compared are different methods for evaluation of formulas expressing microprocessor correctness in the logic of Equality with Uninterpreted Functions and Memories (EUFM) by transl...
Many embedded processors use highly associative data caches implemented using a CAM-based tag search. When high-associativity is desirable, CAM designs can offer performance advan...