As manufacturing technology moves toward fundamental limits of silicon CMOS processing,
the ability to reap the full potential of available transistors and interconnect is increasingly …

Placement is one of the most important steps in the RTL-to-GDSII synthesis process, as it
directly defines the interconnects, which have become the bottleneck in circuit and system …

At the 250nm technology node, interconnect delays account for over 40% of worst delays
[12]. Transition to 130nm and below increases this figure, and hence the relative importance …

Digital image forensics seeks to detect statistical traces left by image acquisition or post-
processing in order to establish an images source and authenticity. Digital cameras acquire …

Die Verdrahtung einer Baugruppe schließt sich an die Platzierung an. Sie erfolgt entweder
in zwei Schritten (Global-und Feinverdrahtung, s. Kap. 5 und 6), oder sie wird direkt in einem …

Modern Placement Techniques explains physical design and VLSI/CAD placement to the
professional engineer and engineering student. Along with explaining the problems that are …

Design hierarchy plays an important role in timing-driven placement for large circuits. In this
paper, we present a new methodology for delay budgeting based timing-driven placement …

Researchers have developed numerous strategies to alleviate the threat of malicious third-
party foundries, including logic locking and its numerous sophisticated variants for hardware …

Control of variability in the back end of the line, and hence in interconnect performance as
well, has become extremely difficult with the introduction of new materials such as copper …

The notion of slack is central in static timing analysis and very large scale integration (VLSI)
design in general. Negative slack means that a timing constraint is violated, while a positive …