Statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) is emerging as a solution for predicting the timing characteristics of digital circuits under process variability. For computing the stat...
Kaviraj Chopra, Bo Zhai, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylv...
Heat dissipation is one of the most serious challenges in 3D IC designs. One effective way of reducing circuit temperature is to introduce thermal through-the-silicon (TTS) vias....
Optimized solvers for the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem have many applications in areas such as hardware and software verification, FPGA routing, planning, etc. Further use...
Fadi A. Aloul, Arathi Ramani, Igor L. Markov, Kare...
Abstract— With the increasing cost of global communication onchip, high-performance designs for data-intensive applications require architectures that distribute hardware resourc...
The use of nanometer technologies is making it increasingly important to consider transient characteristics of a circuit’s power dissipation (e.g., peak power, and power gradien...