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ISVLSI
2007
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
A Hash-based Approach for Functional Regularity Extraction During Logic Synthesis
Performance, power, and functionality, yield and manufacturability are rapidly becoming additional critical factors that must be considered at higher levels of ion. A possible sol...
Angelo P. E. Rosiello, Fabrizio Ferrandi, Davide P...
ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Using functional independence conditions to optimize the performance of latency-insensitive systems
—In latency-insensitive design shell modules are used to encapsulate system components (pearls) in order to interface them with the given latency-insensitive protocol and dynamic...
Cheng-Hong Li, Luca P. Carloni
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Delay driven AIG restructuring using slack budget management
Timing optimizations during logic synthesis has become a necessary step to achieve timing closure in VLSI designs. This often involves “shortening” all paths found in the circ...
Andrew C. Ling, Jianwen Zhu, Stephen Dean Brown
ARITH
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Challenges in Automatic Optimization of Arithmetic Circuits
Despite the impressive progress of logic synthesis in the past decade, finding the best architecture for a given circuit still remains an open and largely unsolved problem, espec...
Ajay K. Verma, Philip Brisk, Paolo Ienne
ICCAD
2001
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Addressing the Timing Closure Problem by Integrating Logic Optimization and Placement
Timing closure problems occur when timing estimates computed during logic synthesis do not match with timing estimates computed from the layout of the circuit. In such a situation...
Wilsin Gosti, Sunil P. Khatri, Alberto L. Sangiova...
DAC
2007
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Progressive Decomposition: A Heuristic to Structure Arithmetic Circuits
Despite the impressive progress of logic synthesis in the past decade, finding the best architecture for a given circuit still remains an open problem and largely unsolved. In mos...
Ajay K. Verma, Philip Brisk, Paolo Ienne
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Handling don't-care conditions in high-level synthesis and application for reducing initialized registers
Don't-care conditions provide additional flexibility in logic synthesis and optimization. However, most work only focuses on the gate level because it is difficult to handle ...
Hong-Zu Chou, Kai-Hui Chang, Sy-Yen Kuo