— In today’s VLSI designs, there can be many blockages in a routing region. The obstacle-avoiding rectilinear Steiner minimum tree (OARSMT) problem has become an important prob...
—SystemC is a system-level modeling language that offers a wide range of features to describe concurrent systems rent levels of abstraction. The SystemC standard permits simulato...
Functional decomposition is a fundamental operation in logic synthesis. Prior BDD-based approaches to functional decomposition suffer from the memory explosion problem and do not...
Hsuan-Po Lin, Jie-Hong Roland Jiang, Ruei-Rung Lee
—When manufacturing nano-devices, defects are a certainty and reliability becomes a critical issue. Until now, the most pervasive methods used to address reliability, involve inj...
Abstract— Process variations make at-speed testing significantly more difficult. They cause subtle delay changes that are distributed rather than the localized nature of a trad...
Vladimir Zolotov, Jinjun Xiong, Hanif Fatemi, Chan...
Abstract— This paper presents an allocation method of decoupling capacitance that explicitly considers timing. We have found and focused that decap does not necessarily improve a...
— In today’s complex SoC designs, verification and debugging are becoming ever more crucial and increasingly timeconsuming tasks. The prevalence of embedded memories adds to t...
Brian Keng, Hratch Mangassarian, Andreas G. Veneri...
— Double patterning technology (DPT) is a most likely lithography solution for 32/22nm technology nodes as of 2008 due to the delay of Extreme Ultra Violet lithography. However, ...