For advanced submicron VLSI technologies maintaining higher performance and better yield is a challenging task. Layout optimization for improving yield may affect the circuit performance and vice versa. We analyse the...
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For advanced submicron VLSI technologies maintaining higher performance and better yield is a challenging task. Layout optimization for improving yield may affect the circuit performance and vice versa. We analyse the effect of layout modifications for parasitic capacitance reduction on yield in this paper. Our results show that the solutions to the yield enhancement and parasitic capacitance reduction problems are very close to each other.
The problem of designing individual macrocells for a library with power and speed considerations is addressed here. A new technique for optimization using posynomial approximating functions is devised. In the design o...
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The problem of designing individual macrocells for a library with power and speed considerations is addressed here. A new technique for optimization using posynomial approximating functions is devised. In the design of each macrocell, optimality in design is critical and highly accurate techniques for measuring the performance are required during optimization. This paper presents methods for accurately estimating the worst-case contribution of the power and delay of a cell to a circuit. The program uses circuit-level simulation to calculate the power dissipation and delay of the cell with the highest accuracy. A rationale for using arbitrary degree posynomial modeling functions for area, delay and power modeling is presented. The problem is then formulated as a convex programming problem, and a rigorous optimization technique is used to arrive at the optimal macrocell.
We present a mathematical framework for analyzing the synthesis of interacting finite state systems. The logic S1S is used to derive simple, rigorous, and constructive solutions to problems in sequential synthesis. We...
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(纸本)9780818672132
We present a mathematical framework for analyzing the synthesis of interacting finite state systems. The logic S1S is used to derive simple, rigorous, and constructive solutions to problems in sequential synthesis. We obtain exact and approximate sets of permissible FSM network behavior, and address the issue of FSM realizability. This approach is also applied to synthesizing systems with fairness and timed systems.
In this paper, we propose a method of using an FPGA-based emulation system for fault grading. The real-time simulation capability of a hardware emulator could significantly improve the run-time of fault grading, which...
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(纸本)0818672137
In this paper, we propose a method of using an FPGA-based emulation system for fault grading. The real-time simulation capability of a hardware emulator could significantly improve the run-time of fault grading, which is one of the most resource-intensive tasks in the design process. A serial fault emulation algorithm is employed and enhanced by two speed-up techniques. First, a set of independent faults can be emulated in parallel. Second, simultaneous injection of multiple dependent faults is also possible by adding extra supporting circuitry. Because the reconfiguration time spent on mapping the numerous faulty circuits into the FPGA boards could be the bottleneck of the whole process, using extra logic for injecting a large number of faults per configuration can reduce the number of reconfigurations, and thus, significantly improve the efficiency. Some modeling issues that are unique in the fault emulation environment are also addressed. The performance estimation indicates that this approach could be several orders of magnitude faster than the existing software approaches for large designs.
In this paper we analyze the properties of the Xilinx-like regular segmentation schemes for 2-D Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). We introduce a new notion of architectural level routing decaying effect caused b...
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In this paper we analyze the properties of the Xilinx-like regular segmentation schemes for 2-D Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). We introduce a new notion of architectural level routing decaying effect caused by wiring segmentation. We discuss its routing properties and propose a relative prime number based segmentation scheme for 2-D FPGA architectures. A new FPGA design concept of applying architectural coupling to achieve better routability is also introduced and experimentally justified.
We present a mathematical framework for analyzing the synthesis of interacting, finite state systems. The logic S1S is used to derive simple, rigorous, and constructive solutions to problems in sequential synthesis. W...
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We present a mathematical framework for analyzing the synthesis of interacting, finite state systems. The logic S1S is used to derive simple, rigorous, and constructive solutions to problems in sequential synthesis. We obtain exact and approximate sets of permissible FSM network behavior, and address the issue of FSM realizability. This approach is also applied to synthesizing systems with fairness and timed systems.
This paper describes the implementation of transmission-line matrix (TLM) method algorithms on a massively parallel computer (DECmpp 12000), the technique of distributed computing in the UNIX environment, and the comb...
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This paper describes the implementation of transmission-line matrix (TLM) method algorithms on a massively parallel computer (DECmpp 12000), the technique of distributed computing in the UNIX environment, and the combination of TLM analysis with Prony's method as well as with autoregressive moving average (ARMA) digital signal processing for electromagnetic field modelling. By combining these advanced computation techniques, typical electromagnetic field modelling of microwave structures by TLM analysis can be accelerated by a few orders of magnitude.
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POND, LCLI, VOKCommunication Sciences
Electrical Engineering Systems University of Southern California Los Angeles CA 90089-2565 U.S.A. Lawrence C. Pond received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1983 and 1990
respectively. Dr. Pond is currently a scientist at Hughes Space and Communications Company having joined in 1980. He has worked in the fields of communication system design mobile communication network and spacecraft payload design. He is currently working on the development of satellite-based ATM transport and switching architectures for BISDN and Defense Information System Network amlications. Dr. Pond is a member of IEEE. Victor O. K. Li was born in Hong Kong in 1954. He received his SB
SM and Sc.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Massachusetts in 1977 1979 and 1981 respectively. Since February 1981 he has been with the University of Southern California (USC) LOS Angeles California where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the USC Communication Sciences Institute. He has published 150 technical papers and has lectured and consulted extensively around the world. His research interests include high-speed communication networks personal communication networks intelligent networks distributed databases queueing theory graph theory and applied probability. Dr. Li is very active in the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) having been a member of the Computer Communications Technical Committee since 1983 and having served as Chairman from 1987–1989. He served as Chairman of the Los Angeles Chapter of the IEEE Information Theory Group from 1983–1985. He is the Steering Committee Chair of the International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3 N) General Chair of the 1st Annual IC3N held in San Diego California in June 1992 General Chair and Technical Program Chair of the 4th IEEE Workshop on Comp
In this, the second part of a two-part paper, the required time for establishing a mobile packet radio network using the virtual circuit and time division multiple access protocol developed in Part 1 is analysed. Tool...
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In this, the second part of a two-part paper, the required time for establishing a mobile packet radio network using the virtual circuit and time division multiple access protocol developed in Part 1 is analysed. Tools are developed to determine the virtual circuit and network set-up times in terms of the channel bandwidth allocated to establish and maintain the network. The tools are then extended to include the effects of user mobility. Then these results are combined with the network capacity results of Part 1 to analyse the trade-off between the data rate and set-up time of the network. Next a hierarchical architecture is proposed and the network data rate versus set-up time trade-off of this architecture is analysed using these tools. This architecture is shown to both provide a higher data rate and establish faster than flat networks of the same number of nodes.
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