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DAC
2000
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Impact of interconnect variations on the clock skew of a gigahertz microprocessor
Due to the large die sizes and tight relative clock skew margins, the impact of interconnect manufacturing variations on the clock skew in today's gigahertz microprocessors c...
Ying Liu, Sani R. Nassif, Lawrence T. Pileggi, And...
DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Enhancing timing-driven FPGA placement for pipelined netlists
FPGA application developers often attempt to use pipelining, Cslowing and retiming to improve the performance of their designs. Unfortunately, such registered netlists present a f...
Kenneth Eguro, Scott Hauck
DAC
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Incremental retiming for FPGA physical synthesis
In this paper, we present a new linear-time retiming algorithm that produces near-optimal results. Our implementation is specifically targeted at Altera's Stratix [1] FPGAbas...
Deshanand P. Singh, Valavan Manohararajah, Stephen...
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Provably good and practically efficient algorithms for CMP dummy fill
Abstract--To reduce chip-scale topography variation in Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process, dummy fill is widely used to improve the layout density uniformity. Previous res...
Chunyang Feng, Hai Zhou, Changhao Yan, Jun Tao, Xu...
SECON
2007
IEEE
16 years 23 days ago
Adaptive Control of Duty Cycling in Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
—Increasingly many wireless sensor network deployments are using harvested environmental energy to extend system lifetime. Because the temporal profiles of such energy sources e...
Christopher M. Vigorito, Deepak Ganesan, Andrew G....