While previous watermarking-based approaches to intellectual property protection (IPP) have asymmetrically emphasized the IP provider's rights, the true goal of IPP is to ens...
Andrew E. Caldwell, Hyun-Jin Choi, Andrew B. Kahng...
We empirically assess the implications of fixed terminals for hypergraph partitioning heuristics. Our experimental testbed incorporates a leading-edge multilevel hypergraph partit...
Andrew E. Caldwell, Andrew B. Kahng, Igor L. Marko...
We propose a new VLSI layout methodology which addresses the main problems faced in Deep Sub-Micron (DSM) integrated circuit design. Our layout "fabric" scheme eliminate...
Sunil P. Khatri, Amit Mehrotra, Robert K. Brayton,...
This work focuses on congestion-driven placement of standard cells into rows in the fixed-die context. We summarize the stateof-the-art after two decades of research in recursive ...
Andrew E. Caldwell, Andrew B. Kahng, Igor L. Marko...
Research in algorithms for Boolean satisfiability and their efficient implementations [26, 8] has recently outpaced benchmarking efforts. Most of the classic DIMACS benchmarks fro...
Fadi A. Aloul, Arathi Ramani, Igor L. Markov, Kare...