Placement migration is a critical step to address a variety of postplacement design closure issues, such as timing, routing congestion, signal integrity, and heat distribution. To...
Tao Luo, Haoxing Ren, Charles J. Alpert, David Zhi...
Double Patterning Lithography (DPL) is one of the few hopeful candidate solutions for the lithography for CMOS process beyond 45nm. DPL assigns the patterns less than a certain di...
—Due to increasing complexity of design interactions between the chip, package and PCB, it is essential to consider them at the same time. Specifically the finger/pad locations...
Chao-Hung Lu, Hung-Ming Chen, Chien-Nan Jimmy Liu,...
As technology scaling drives the number of processor cores upward, current on-chip routers consume substantial portions of chip area and power budgets. Since existing research has...
Mitchell Hayenga, Natalie D. Enright Jerger, Mikko...
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a wellknown technique widely used for safety assessment in the area of safety-critical systems. However, FMEA is traditionally done man...