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ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Archer: a history-driven global routing algorithm
Global routing is an important step in the physical design process. In this paper, we propose a new global routing algorithm Archer, which resolves some of the most common problem...
Muhammet Mustafa Ozdal, Martin D. F. Wong
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Enhancing design robustness with reliability-aware resynthesis and logic simulation
While circuit density and power efficiency increase with each major advance in IC technology, reliability with respect to soft errors tends to decrease. Current solutions to this...
Smita Krishnaswamy, Stephen Plaza, Igor L. Markov,...
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Voltage island-driven floorplanning
— Energy efficiency has become one of the most important issues to be addressed in today’s System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designs. One way to lower the power consumption is to reduce ...
Qiang Ma, Evangeline F. Y. Young
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Modeling, optimization and control of rotary traveling-wave oscillator
Abstract— Rotary traveling-wave oscillator (RTWO) is a recently proposed transmission-line approach for multi-gigahertz rate clock generation. RTWO has the characteristics of bot...
Cheng Zhuo, Huafeng Zhang, Rupak Samanta, Jiang Hu...
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Low-overhead design technique for calibration of maximum frequency at multiple operating points
— Determination of maximum operating frequencies (Fmax) during manufacturing test at different operating voltages is required to: (a) to ensure that, for a Dynamic Voltage and Fr...
Somnath Paul, Sivasubramaniam Krishnamurthy, Hamid...
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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A novel intensity based optical proximity correction algorithm with speedup in lithography simulation
Abstract—It is important to reduce the Optical Proximity Correction (OPC) runtime while maintaining a good result quality. In this paper, we obtain a better formula, which theore...
Peng Yu, David Z. Pan
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Stimulus generation for constrained random simulation
Constrained random simulation is the main workhorse in today’s hardware verification flows. It requires the random generation of input stimuli that obey a set of declaratively...
Nathan Kitchen, Andreas Kuehlmann
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Extending systems-on-chip to the third dimension: performance, cost and technological tradeoffs
Abstract—Because of the today’s market demand for highperformance, high-density portable hand-held applications, electronic system design technology has shifted the focus from ...
Roshan Weerasekera, Li-Rong Zheng, Dinesh Pamunuwa...
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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Combinational and sequential mapping with priority cuts
An algorithm for technology mapping of combinational and sequential logic networks is proposed and applied to mapping into K-input lookup-tables (K-LUTs). The new algorithm avoids...
Alan Mishchenko, Sungmin Cho, Satrajit Chatterjee,...