As technology advances into nanometer territory, the antenna problem has caused significant impact on routing tools. The antenna effect is a phenomenon of plasmainduced gate oxide...
VLSI placement tools usually work in two steps: First, the cells that have to be placed are roughly spread out over the chip area ignoring disjointness (global placement). Then, i...
Modern processors and SoCs require the adoption of poweroriented design styles, due to the implications that power consumption may have on reliability, cost and manufacturability ...