Coarse-grain multi-threshold CMOS (MTCMOS) is an effective power-gating technique to reduce IC's leakage power consumption by turning off idle devices with MTCMOS power switc...
Circuit marginality failures in high performance VLSI circuits are projected to increase due to shrinking process geometries and high frequency design techniques. Capacitive cross...
Sujit T. Zachariah, Yi-Shing Chang, Sandip Kundu, ...
This paper addresses the problem of efficient functional simulation of synchronous digital systems. A technique based on the use of Decision Diagrams (DD) for representing the fun...
-- In this tutorial we discuss concepts and techniques for the accurate and efficient modeling and extraction of interconnect parasitics in VLSI designs. Due toincreasing operating...
A new technique for design centering, and for polytope approximation of the feasible region for a design are presented. In the rst phase, the feasible region is approximated by a ...
Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Pravin M. Vaidya, Steve M. K...