Interconnect structures including dielectrics can be modeled by an integral equation method using volume currents and surface charges for the conductors, and volume polarization c...
Luca Daniel, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, J...
— Modern sub-micron VLSI designs include huge power grids that are required to distribute large amounts of current, at increasingly lower voltages. The resulting voltage drop on ...
Retiming is a widely investigated technique for performance optimization. It performs powerful modifications on a circuit netlist. However, often it is not clear, whether the pred...
— Post-silicon debug comprises a significant and highly variable fraction of the total development time for large chip designs. To accelerate post-silicon debug, BackSpace [1, 2...
Johnny J. W. Kuan, Steven J. E. Wilton, Tor M. Aam...
Active decoupling capacitors (decaps) are more effective than passive decaps at reducing local IR-drop problems in the power distribution network. In the basic active decap, two p...