ISPD
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
ISPD
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
ISPD
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
As the CMOS technology is scaled into the dimension of nanometer, the clock frequencies and die sizes of ICs are shown to be increasing steadily [5]. Today, global wires that requ...
ISPD
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
High performance integrated circuits are now reaching the 100-plus watt regime, and power delivery and power grid signal integrity have become critical. Analyzing the performance ...
ISPD
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper presents an efficient method for optimizing the design of power/ground (P/G) networks by using locally regular, globally irregular grids. The procedure divides the pow...
ISPD
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Due to increasing design complexity, routing congestion has become a critical problem in VLSI designs. This paper introduces a distributed metric to predict routing congestion for...
ISPD
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Considering the voltage drop constraint over a distributed model for power/ground (P/G) network, we study the following two problems for physical synthesis of sleep transistors: t...
ISPD
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Many current designs contain a large number of standard cells intermixed with larger macro blocks. The range of size in these “mixed block” designs complicates the placement p...
ISPD
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Automated cell placement is a critical problem in VLSI physical design. New analytical placement methods that simultaneously spread cells and optimize wirelength have recently rec...
ISPD
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper describes the structured ASIC technology and impacts to the implementation flow. With an optimized and programmable structure, the structured ASIC technology indeed int...