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AVATAR: An Aging-and Variation-Aware Dynamic Timing Analyzer for Error-Efficient Computing
As the timing guardband consumes more and more design margin with the technology scaling, better-than-worst-case (BTWC) techniques have …
Zuodong Zhang, Zizheng Guo, Yibo Lin, Meng Li, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang
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DREAMPlace 4.0: Timing-driven Placement with Momentum-based Net Weighting and Lagrangian-based Refinement
Optimizing timing is critical to the design closure of integrated circuits (IC). However, most existing algorithms for circuit …
Peiyu Liao, Dawei Guo, Zizheng Guo, Siting Liu, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu
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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, Mingwei Yang, Tsung-Wei Huang, Yibo Lin
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