Recently, several algorithms for interconnect optimization via repeater insertion and wire sizing have appeared based on the Elmore delay model. Using the Devgan noise metric [6] ...
Contemporary microprocessors implement many iterative algorithms. For example, the front-end of a microprocessor repeatedly fetches and decodes instructions while updating interna...
Mark Aagaard, Robert B. Jones, Roope Kaivola, Kath...
Many real-time embedded systems involve a collection of independently executing event-driven code blocks, having hard real-time constraints. Tasks in many such systems, like netwo...
Samarjit Chakraborty, Thomas Erlebach, Simon K&uum...
The ability to compute the parasitic inductance of the interconnect is critical to the timing verification of modern VLSI circuits. A challenging aspect of inductance extraction i...
Linear programming (LP) in its many forms has proven to be an indispensable tool for expressing and solving optimization problems in numerous domains. We propose the first set of ...