[BOOK][B] Electronic design automation: synthesis, verification, and test

LT Wang, YW Chang, KTT Cheng - 2009 - books.google.com
This book provides broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire EDA flow. EDA/VLSI
practitioners and researchers in need of fluency in an" adjacent" field will find this an …

Survey of machine learning for electronic design automation

KI Gubbi, SA Beheshti-Shirazi, T Sheaves… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
An increase in demand for semiconductor ICs, recent advancements in machine learning,
and the slowing down of Moore's law have all contributed to the increased interest in using …

A summary-attainment-surface plotting method for visualizing the performance of stochastic multiobjective optimizers

J Knowles - 5th International Conference on Intelligent Systems …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When evaluating the performance of a stochastic optimizer it is sometimes desirable to
express performance in terms of the quality attained in a certain fraction of sample runs. For …

UST/DME: a clock tree router for general skew constraints

CWA Tsao, CK Koh - ACM Transactions on Design Automation of …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
In this article, we propose new approaches for solving the useful-skew tree (UST) routing
problem [** and Dai 1997]: clock routing subject to general skew constraints. The clock …

Advanced Reinforcement Learning Solution for Clock Skew Engineering: Modified Q-Table Update Technique for Peak Current and IR Drop Minimization

SA Beheshti-Shirazi, N Nazari, KI Gubbi… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discloses a Reinforcement Learning (RL) solution implemented to decrease the
peak current by alteration of the clock skews. Clock skews are elements of the clock network …

di/dt Noise in CMOS Integrated Circuits

P Larsson - Analog Design Issues in Digital VLSI Circuits and …, 1997 - Springer
This is an overview paper presenting di/dt noise from a designer's perspective. Analysis and
circuit design techniques are presented taking package parasitics into account. The main …

Timing analysis and optimization of sequential circuits

OFS CIRCUITS - 1999 - Springer
While a decade ago, most books related to integrated circuits began with the phrase," With
the increasing complexity of VLSI circuits...," the new and trendy catch-phrase today is" deep …

IR-ATA: IR annotated timing analysis, a flow for closing the loop between PDN design, IR analysis & timing closure

A Vakil, H Homayoun, A Sasan - Proceedings of the 24th Asia and South …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents IR-ATA, a novel flow for modeling the timing impact of IR drop during
the physical design and timing closure of an ASIC chip. We first illustrate how the current …

A power delivery network and cell placement aware IR-drop mitigation technique: Harvesting unused timing slacks to schedule useful skews

L Bhamidipati, B Gunna, H Homayoun… - 2017 IEEE Computer …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper, presents a novel technique for reducing the intensity of IR hot-spots by
leveraging the unused timing slacks to schedule useful skews. The peak current …

Methodology and experimental verification for substrate noise reduction in CMOS mixed-signal ICs with synchronous digital circuits

M Badaroglu, M Van Heijningen… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes substrate noise reduction techniques for synchronous CMOS circuits.
Low-noise digital design techniques have been implemented and measured on a mixed …