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AVATAR: An Aging- and Variation-Aware Dynamic Timing Analyzer for Application-based DVAFS
As the timing guardband continues to increase with the continuous technology scaling, better-than-worst-case (BTWC) design has gained …
Zuodong Zhang, Zizheng Guo, Yibo Lin, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang
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Differentiable-Timing-Driven Global Placement
Placement is critical to the timing closure of the very-large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuit design flow. This paper proposes a …
Zizheng Guo, Yibo Lin
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Efficient Critical Paths Search Algorithm using Mergeable Heap
Path searching is a central step in static timing analysis (STA). State-of-the-art algorithms need to generate path deviations for …
Kexing Zhou, Zizheng Guo, Tsung-Wei Huang, Yibo Lin
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EventTimer: Fast and Accurate Event-Based Dynamic Timing Analysis
As the transistor shrinks to nanoscale, the overhead of ensuring circuit functionality becomes extremely large due to the increasing …
Zuodong Zhang, Zizheng Guo, Yibo Lin, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang
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A Provably Good and Practically Efficient Algorithm for Common Path Pessimism Removal in Large Designs
Common path pessimism removal (CPPR) is imperative for eliminating redundant pessimism during static timing analysis (STA). However, …
Zizheng Guo, Tsung-Wei Huang, Yibo Lin
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HeteroCPPR: Accelerating Common Path Pessimism Removal with Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Parallelism
Common path pessimism removal (CPPR) is a key step to eliminating unwanted pessimism during static timing analysis (STA). Unwanted …
Zizheng Guo, Tsung-Wei Huang, Yibo Lin
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Ultrafast CPU/GPU Kernels for Density Accumulation in Placement
Density accumulation is a widely-used primitive operation in physical design, especially for placement. Iterative invocation in the …
Zizheng Guo, Jing Mai, Yibo Lin
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VAT-Mart: Learning Visual Action Trajectory Proposals for Manipulating 3D ARTiculated Objects
Ruihai Wu, Yan Zhao, Kaichun Mo, Zizheng Guo, Yian Wang, Tianhao Wu, Qingnan Fan, Xuelin Chen, Leonidas Guibas, Hao Dong
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GPU-Accelerated Static Timing Analysis
The ever-increasing power of graphics processing units (GPUs) has opened new opportunities for accelerating static timing analysis …
Zizheng Guo, Tsung-Wei Huang, Yibo Lin
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