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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...