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ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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PRIMA: passive reduced-order interconnect macromodeling algorithm
— This paper describes an algorithm for generating provably passive reduced-order N-port models for RLC interconnect circuits. It is demonstrated that, in addition to macromodel ...
Altan Odabasioglu, Mustafa Celik, Lawrence T. Pile...
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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High-level area and power estimation for VLSI circuits
High-level power estimation, when given only a high-level design specification such as a functional or RTL description, requires high-level estimation of the circuit average acti...
Mahadevamurty Nemani, Farid N. Najm
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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Low power logic synthesis for XOR based circuits
An abundance of research e orts in low power logic synthesis have so far been focused on and or or nand nor based logic. A typical approach is to rst generate an initial multi-lev...
Unni Narayanan, C. L. Liu
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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Sequential optimisation without state space exploration
We propose an algorithm for area optimisation of sequential circuits through redundancy removal. The algorithm finds compatible redundancies by implying values over nets in the c...
Amit Mehrotra, Shaz Qadeer, Vigyan Singhal, Robert...
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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Post-route optimization for improved yield using a rubber-band wiring model
This paper presents a unique approach to improve yield given a routed layout. Currently after routing has been completed and compacted, it generally proceeds to verification witho...
Jeffrey Z. Su, Wayne Wei-Ming Dai
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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Transformational partitioning for co-design of multiprocessor systems
This paper presents the underlying methodology of Cosmos, an interactive approach for hardware software co-design capable of handling multiprocessor systems and distributed archit...
Gilberto Fernandes Marchioro, Jean-Marc Daveau, Ah...
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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An output encoding problem and a solution technique
We present a new output encoding problem as follows: Given a specification table, such as a truth table or a finite state machine state table, where some of the outputs are specif...
Subhasish Mitra, LaNae J. Avra, Edward J. McCluske...
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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Minimum area retiming with equivalent initial states
Traditional minimum area retiming algorithms attempt to achieve their prescribed objective with no regard to maintaining the initial state of the system. This issue is important f...
Naresh Maheshwari, Sachin S. Sapatnekar
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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An exact solution to simultaneous technology mapping and linear placement problem
In this paper, we present an optimal algorithm for solving the simultaneous technology mapping and linear placement problem for tree-structured circuits with the objective of mini...
Jinan Lou, Amir H. Salek, Massoud Pedram