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 ...
Beyond the Red Brick Wall: Physical Design Challenges at 50nm and Below Andrew B. Kahng UC San Diego, Depts. of CSE and ECE abk@ucsd.edu http://vlsicad.ucsd.edu (http ...
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 ...
ICCAD-2002 Open Source Panel Andrew B. Kahng UC San Diego CSE & ECE Depts. Igor L. Markov Univ. of Michigan EECS Dept. abk@ucsd.edu http://vlsicad.ucsd.edu/~abk/TALKS/
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) ...
ia and ib are interconnects of interest with coupling Cab ... ?Cab decreases super-linearly with spacing ... Cab unaffected until fill close to an interconnect ending ...
... quality and design process must continually improve Currently, there are no standards or infrastructure for measuring and recording the semiconductor ... system ...
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 ...
A Priori System-Level Interconnect Prediction The Road to Future Computer Systems Dirk Stroobandt Ghent University Electronics and Information Systems Department
Detailed Placement for Improved Depth of Focus and CD Control ... OPC = one of available reticle enhancement techniques (RET) to improve pattern resolution ...
Algorithms that produce routable placements are more valuable (no ... 10 years old, no longer representative (Alpert 98) row-based layouts use variable-die ...
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
University of California, San Diego. Outline. Motivation. Background ... Using OSTRICH from CADENCE. Best (-40 C, 1.1V) Worst (125 C, 0.9V) Best (-40 C, 1.1V) ...
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 ...
Size of I matters! Potential Mismatch: Instance Perturbation vs. Optimizer Strength ... Does the size of perturbation I have any effect on the quality of the solution? ...
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 ...
Outline Challenges DFM Philosophy Manufacturing and Variability Primer Design for Value Composability Performance Impact Limited Fill Insertion Function Aware ...
... 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 ...