SS Sapatnekar - IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nanometer-scale circuits are fundamentally different from those built in their predecessor technologies in that they are subject to a wide range of new effects that induce on-chip …
Advances in semiconductor fabrication technology have produced explosive growth in the number of transistors within an integrated circuit (IC). Modern devices consist of dozens of …
J Singh, SS Sapatnekar - IEEE Transactions on Computer …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an efficient heuristic algorithm, which employs successive partitioning and grid-refinement scheme, for designing the power distribution network of a chip. In an …
Y Zhong, MDF Wong - 2007 Asia and South Pacific Design …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power grid networks in VLSI circuits are required to provide adequate input supply to ensure reliable performance. In this paper, we propose algorithms to find the placement of power …
In traditional power delivery networks, the on-chip supply voltage is provided by board-level converters. Due to the significant distance between the converter and the load, variations in …
AB Kahng, B Liu, Q Wang - 2005 International Conference on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasingly significant power/ground supply voltage degradation in nanometer VLSI designs leads to system performance degradation and even malfunction. Existing …
K Wang, BH Meyer, R Zhang… - 2014 19th Asia and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel C4 pad placement optimization framework for 2D power delivery grids: Walking Pads (WP). WP optimizes pad locations by moving pads according to the “virtual …
PHY Tai, YM Jiang, SH Kwon - US Patent 7,797,654, 2010 - Google Patents
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An efficient pad assignment algorithm to minimize voltage drop on a power distribution network is proposed. Combination of the successive pad assignment (SPA) and the …