Currently, hardware intellectual property (IP) is delivered at vels of abstraction: hard, firm, and soft. In order to further enhance performance, efficiency, and flexibility of I...
— Sharing IP blocks in today’s competitive market poses significant high security risks. Creators and owners of IP designs want assurances that their content will not be illeg...
1In this paper, we will present an effective layout method for analog circuits. We consider symmetry constraint, common centroid constraint, device merging and device clustering du...
Linfu Xiao, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Xiaoyong He, K...
Many compute-intensive applications generate single result values by accessing clusters of nearby points in grids of one, two, or more dimensions. Often, the performance of FGPA i...
- In multi-layered power/ground (P/G) networks, to connect the whole network together, vertical vias are usually placed at intersections between metal wires of adjoining layers. In...