http://vlsicad.ucsd.edu. Data Volume Explosion. Number of design rules per process node ... http://www.xinitiative.org/ Y-Architecture: http://vlsicad. ...
Performance Counter Based Architecture Level Power Modeling ( http://vlsicad.ucsd.edu ) Methodology Results Motivation & Goals Processor power is increasing power ...
Open-source, free: http://vlsicad.cs.ucla.edu/software/PDtools. Runs in: , N ... No source code modification needed. Tools are publicly available! Future Work ...
Benchmark-driven research. partitioning benchmarks have no fixed-terminal information ... Fixed-terminals benchmark suite (ISPD99) at http://vlsicad.cs.ucla.edu ...
Website: http://vlsicad.ucsd.edu/courses/ece260b-w05. Slides courtesy of ... Available routing areas are unblocked vertices, obstacles are blocked vertices ...
Practical Iterated Fill Synthesis for CMP Uniformity ... Y. Chen, A. B. Kahng, G. Robins, A. Zelikovsky (UCLA, UVA and GSU) http://vlsicad.cs.ucla.edu ...
http://vlsicad.ucsd.edu. Advantages of gate-level simulation ... Distinction between property checking and equiv. checking is becoming common knowledge ...
PART III: Interaction with Upstream Floorplanning and Logic Synthesis ... Feel free to contact us if you have any questions: http://vlsicad.ucsd.edu/ICCAD2000TUTORIAL ...
http://cadlab.cs.ucla.edu/~cong. cong@cs.ucla.edu. 9/19/09. UCLA VLSICAD LAB. 2. Outline ... A set of cells ( modules ) of fixed dimensions and the ...
Design Process Optimization Andrew B. Kahng and Stefanus Mantik* UCSD CSE and ECE Depts., La Jolla, CA *UCLA CS Dept., Los Angeles, CA Purpose of METRICS Standard ...
up front estimates for people, time, technology, EDA licenses, IP re-use... input parameters that have the most impact on results. Field of use analysis ...
Narrow Region Solutions Fractional Cut Ignoring Row Boundaries Fractional Cut After Bisection After Bisection Legalization Method Example Some Observations ...
... composed of probes where each probe is a sequence of 25 nucleotides ... Insertion of probe test can benefit from test and diagnosis topics for VLSI circuits. ...
single cell row with n movable cells C[i] with fixed left-to-right order (but ... of C[i] = sum over all nets N of contributions of C[i] to span(N) - fixed_span(N) ...
For example, given a hypergraph that is to be placed on a block, we partition the hypergraph into roughly two equal parts, and bisect the block accordingly.
than native generator GCF. GZIP and GCF are orthogonal to each other ... Include pseudo-random number generator in OASIS, for fast and simple generation ...
Algorithms that produce routable placements are more valuable (no ... 10 years old, no longer representative (Alpert 98) row-based layouts use variable-die ...
A Priori System-Level Interconnect Prediction The Road to Future Computer Systems Dirk Stroobandt Ghent University Electronics and Information Systems Department
Title: Can Recursive Bisection Alone Produce Routable Placements? Last modified by: Ion Mandoiu Created Date: 9/30/1996 6:28:10 PM Document presentation format
Title: Fill for Shallow Trench Isolation CMP Author: Puneet Sharma Last modified by: Puneet Sharma Created Date: 11/4/2003 12:28:36 AM Document presentation format
Max. 32.68. C Mean. 16.07. C Greedily optimized schedule. Ordering in Mask ... at clamp or other peripheral locations and can this be compensated (instance ...
On Design -Manufacturing ... thermal properties, anisotropy, nonuniformity Resistivity at small ... for analog) and timing predictability Solution: limit antenna ...
Title: Can Recursive Bisection Alone Produce Routable Placements? Last modified by: Alex Zelikovsky Created Date: 9/30/1996 6:28:10 PM Document presentation format
Moving Picture Recognition. A. Kahng, ISMT Yield Council, 030925. ANALOGY #1. ITRS is like a car ... Many passengers in the car (ASIC, SOC, Analog, Mobile, Low ...
Voltage islands are regions where nearby IP blocks use a supply voltage ... We propose taking voltage islands in a core-based SoC design, and adding Vth ...
METRICS Standards and Infrastructure for Design Productivity Measurement and Optimization ... Metricization of synthesis and Verilog simulation tools ...
Noise Model for Multiple Segmented Coupled RC Interconnects. Andrew B. Kahng, ... Noise function due to each aggressor is added in time domain to obtain the ...
912.001 Layout Planning of Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits Chung-Kuan Cheng / Andrew B. Kahng UC San Diego CSE Department Planning Mixed-Signal Planning Mixed-Signal ...
... uniform mesh structures, with current drains modeled using simple area-based calculations ... floorplan, the exact current drain at different locations is ...
Divide scan cells under test into groups of size = square root of total. ... Diagnosis time for scan chain of length 961. Experimental Results. Batched Digging ...
Outline Challenges DFM Philosophy Manufacturing and Variability Primer Design for Value Composability Performance Impact Limited Fill Insertion Function Aware ...
SUNY Binghamton CSD, FAIS, University of Kitakyushu (with code by Mehmet Can Yildiz and Ateen Khatkhate, and with help ... The funny pictures from the GUI...
Title: Optimal Placement by Branch-and-Price Author: Patrick Madden Last modified by: Patrick Madden Created Date: 1/17/2005 2:12:59 AM Document presentation format
Post Processing to Reduce ... Edge extraction in the netlist Layout Coarsening Reduce Solution Space ... 3.0 Adobe Photoshop Image Microsoft Graph 97 Chart ...
If top node of heap is 'valid' then cluster it with its closest neighbor ... calculate the clustering score of the new node and reinsert into the heap ...
better performance for small partitioning tolerance. VLSI Design 2000 ... Other WL minimization techniques may be better or worse. Min-cut may be a better objective ! ...
... A Concept and Method for Better Min-Cut Placements. Andrew B. Kahng ... Cut ... Cuts = 2, Wirelength = 5. B1. B2. Placement Feedback. Traditional ...