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ASPDAC
2006
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Delay modeling and static timing analysis for MTCMOS circuits
- One of the critical issues in MTCMOS design is how to estimate a circuit delay quickly. In this paper, we propose a delay modeling and static timing analysis (STA) methodology ta...
Naoaki Ohkubo, Kimiyoshi Usami
DATE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
On hierarchical statistical static timing analysis
— Statistical static timing analysis deals with the increasing variations in manufacturing processes to reduce the pessimism in the worst case timing analysis. Because of the cor...
Bing Li, Ning Chen, Manuel Schmidt, Walter Schneid...
ICCAD
2001
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
On the Signal Bounding Problem in Timing Analysis
In this paper, we study the propagation of slew dependent bounding signals and the corresponding slew problem in static timing analysis. The selection of slew from the latest arri...
Jin-fuw Lee, Daniel L. Ostapko, Jeffery Soreff, C....
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Block-based Static Timing Analysis with Uncertainty
Static timing analysis is a critical step in design of any digital integrated circuit. Technology and design trends have led to significant increase in environmental and process v...
Anirudh Devgan, Chandramouli V. Kashyap
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Statistical timing analysis with two-sided constraints
Based on a timing yield model, a statistical static timing analysis technique is proposed. This technique preserves existing methodology by selecting a “device file setting” ...
Khaled R. Heloue, Farid N. Najm
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
An accurate sparse matrix based framework for statistical static timing analysis
Statistical Static Timing Analysis has received wide attention recently and emerged as a viable technique for manufacturability analysis. To be useful, however, it is important th...
Anand Ramalingam, Gi-Joon Nam, Ashish Kumar Singh,...
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Static timing analysis using backward signal propagation
Dongwoo Lee, Vladimir Zolotov, David Blaauw
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Worst-case circuit delay taking into account power supply variations
Current Static Timing Analysis (STA) techniques allow one to verify the timing of a circuit at different process corners which only consider cases where all the supplies are low o...
Dionysios Kouroussis, Rubil Ahmadi, Farid N. Najm
DAC
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Fast Second-Order Statistical Static Timing Analysis Using Parameter Dimension Reduction
The ability to account for the growing impacts of multiple process variations in modern technologies is becoming an integral part of nanometer VLSI design. Under the context of ti...
Zhuo Feng, Peng Li, Yaping Zhan
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Parameterized timing analysis with general delay models and arbitrary variation sources
Many recent techniques for timing analysis under variability, in which delay is an explicit function of underlying parameters, may be described as parameterized timing analysis. T...
Khaled R. Heloue, Farid N. Najm