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ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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A study of routability estimation and clustering in placement
This paper studies the effects of clustering as a pre-processing step and routability estimation in the placement flow. The study shows that when clustering and routability estima...
Kalliopi Tsota, Cheng-Kok Koh, Venkataramanan Bala...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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SAT-based protein design
Computational protein design can be formulated as an optimization problem, where the objective is to identify the sequence of amino acids that minimizes the energy of a given prot...
Noah Ollikainen, Ellen Sentovich, Carlos Coelho, A...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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CRISP: Congestion reduction by iterated spreading during placement
Dramatic progress has been made in algorithms for placement and routing over the last 5 years, with improvements in both speed and quality. Combining placement and routing into a ...
Jarrod A. Roy, Natarajan Viswanathan, Gi-Joon Nam,...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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A hybrid local-global approach for multi-core thermal management
Multi-core processors have become an integral part of mainstream high performance computer systems. In parallel, exponentially increasing power density and packaging costs have ne...
Ramkumar Jayaseelan, Tulika Mitra
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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Multi-functional interconnect co-optimization for fast and reliable 3D stacked ICs
Heat removal and power delivery have become two major reliability concerns in 3D stacked IC technology. For thermal problem, two possible solutions exist: thermal-through-silicon-...
Young-Joon Lee, Rohan Goel, Sung Kyu Lim
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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Virtual probe: A statistically optimal framework for minimum-cost silicon characterization of nanoscale integrated circuits
In this paper, we propose a new technique, referred to as virtual probe (VP), to efficiently measure, characterize and monitor both inter-die and spatially-correlated intra-die va...
Xin Li, Rob A. Rutenbar, R. D. (Shawn) Blanton
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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MOLES: Malicious off-chip leakage enabled by side-channels
Economic incentives have driven the semiconductor industry to separate design from fabrication in recent years. This trend leads to potential vulnerabilities from untrusted circui...
Lang Lin, Wayne Burleson, Christof Paar
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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PCRAMsim: System-level performance, energy, and area modeling for Phase-Change RAM
Phase-change random access memory (PCRAM) is an emerging memory technology with attractive features, such as fast read access, high density, and non-volatility. Because of these a...
Xiangyu Dong, Norman P. Jouppi, Yuan Xie
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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CROP: Fast and effective congestion refinement of placement
Modern circuits become harder to route with the ever decreasing design features. Previous routability-driven placement techniques are usually tightly coupled with the underlying p...
Yanheng Zhang, Chris Chu
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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Quantifying robustness metrics in parameterized static timing analysis
Process and environmental variations continue to present significant challenges to designers of high-performance integrated circuits. In the past few years, while much research has...
Khaled R. Heloue, Chandramouli V. Kashyap, Farid N...