The traditional purpose of physical synthesis is to perform timing closure, ie, to create a
placed design that meets its timing specifications while also satisfying electrical, routability …

We introduce in this paper a new problem of ECO timing optimization using spare-cell
rewiring and present the first work for this problem. Spare-cell rewiring is a popular …

Along with the progress of VLSI technology, buffer insertion plays an increasingly critical role
on affecting circuit design and performance. Traditional buffer insertion algorithms are …

As gate delays deem faster than wire delays for each teehnolagy generation, buffer insertion
hecomes a popular method to reduce the interconnecI delay. Several modem huffer …

Buffer insertion is a popular technique to reduce the interconnect delay. The classic buffer
insertion algorithm of van Ginneken has a time complexity of O (n/sup 2/), where n is the …

This paper studies the impacts of Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP)-induced systematic
variation and random channel length (L eff) variation of transistors on interconnect design …

In modern circuits, interconnect efficiency is a central determinant of circuit efficiency.
Moreover, as technology is scaled down, the importance of efficient interconnect design is …

As technology scales to 0.13 micron and below, designs are requiring buffers to be inserted
on interconnects of even moderate length for both critical paths and fixing electrical …

Van Ginneken's algorithm [18] for performing buffer insertion is a classic in the field, since it
optimally solves the problem subject to a set of fixed buffer insertion candidate locations for …

Several mobile operators have already launched MobileTV services in their network.
Although traditionally delivered over broadcast those services are delivered over uni-cast …