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ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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Optimization techniques for high-performance digital circuits
The relentless push for high performance in custom digital circuits has led to renewed emphasis on circuit optimization or tuning. The parameters of the optimization are typically...
Chandramouli Visweswariah
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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Optimal shape function for a bi-directional wire under Elmore delay model
In this paper, we determine the optimal shape function for a bi-directional wire under the Elmore delay model. Given a bi-directional wire of length L, let fx be the width of the ...
Youxin Gao, D. F. Wong
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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An exact gate decomposition algorithm for low-power technology mapping
With the remarkable growth of portable application and the increasing frequency and integration density, power is being given comparable weight to speed and area in IC designs. In...
Hai Zhou, D. F. Wong
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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COSMOS: a continuous optimization approach for maximum power estimation of CMOS circuits
Maximum instantaneous power in VLSI circuits has a great impact on circuit's reliability and the design of power and ground lines. To synthesizehighlyreliablesystems,accurate...
Chuan-Yu Wang, Kaushik Roy
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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Generalized matching from theory to application
This paper presents a novel approach for post-mapping optimization. We exploit the concept of generalized matching, a technique that nds symbolically all possible matching assignm...
Patrick Vuillod, Luca Benini, Giovanni De Micheli
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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A deductive technique for diagnosis of bridging faults
A deductive technique is presented that uses voltage testing for the diagnosis of single bridging faults between two gate input or output lines and is applicable to combinational ...
Srikanth Venkataraman, W. Kent Fuchs
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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Optimal wire and transistor sizing for circuits with non-tree topology
Lieven Vandenberghe, Stephen P. Boyd, Abbas El Gam...
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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Fast field solver-programs for thermal and electrostatic analysis of microsystem elements
To solve the problem of fast thermal and electrostatic simulation of microsystem elements two different field solver tools have been developed at TUB. The µSTHERMANAL program is ...
Vladimir Székely, Márta Rencz