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ICCAD
2010
IEEE
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Current Shaping and Multi-thread Activation for Fast and Reliable Power Mode Transition in Multicore Designs
Power gating has been widely adopted in multicore designs. The design of fast and reliable power mode transition for per-core power gating remains a challenging problem. This paper...
Hao Xu Ranga Vemuri Wen-Ben Jone
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Fast vectorless power grid verification using an approximate inverse technique
Power grid verification in modern integrated circuits is an integral part of early system design where adjustments can be most easily incorporated. In this work, we describe an ea...
Nahi H. Abdul Ghani, Farid N. Najm
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Fast Placement Optimization of Power Supply Pads
Power grid networks in VLSI circuits are required to provide adequate input supply to ensure reliable performance. In this paper, we propose algorithms to find the placement of pow...
Yu Zhong, Martin D. F. Wong
ICCAD
2000
IEEE
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Simulation and Optimization of the Power Distribution Network in VLSI Circuits
In this paper, we present simulation techniques to estimate the worst-case voltage variation using a RC model for the power distribution network. Pattern independent maximum envel...
Geng Bai, Sudhakar Bobba, Ibrahim N. Hajj