{"title":"Efficient computation of small abstraction refinements","authors":"Bing Li, F. Somenzi","doi":"10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382632","url":null,"abstract":"In the abstraction refinement approach to model checking, the discovery of spurious counterexamples in the current abstract model triggers its refinement. The proof - produced by a SAT solver - that the abstract counterexamples cannot be concretized can be used to identify the circuit elements or predicates that should be added to the model. It is common, however, for the refinements thus computed to be highly redundant. A costly minimization phase is therefore often needed to prevent excessive growth of the abstract model. In This work we show how to modify the search strategy of a SAT solver so that it generates refinements that are close to minimal, thus greatly reducing the time required for their minimization.","PeriodicalId":255227,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, 2004. ICCAD-2004.","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115403508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A flexibility aware budgeting for hierarchical flow timing closure","authors":"O. Omedes, M. Robert, M. Ramdani","doi":"10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382583","url":null,"abstract":"We present a new block budgeting algorithm which speeds up timing closure in timing driven hierarchical flows. After a brief description of the addressed flow, block budgeting challenges are detailed. Then, we explain why existing budgeting approaches are not adapted to fulfil these challenges. A new block budgeting algorithm is proposed. In order to derive relevant block constraints, this algorithm analyzes the design flexibility. This flexibility aware budgeting (FAB) approach is then compared to some previous ones. Experiments based on commercial EDA tools and real designs show up to 55 % reduction in hierarchical flow run time and lead to a good flow timing closure.","PeriodicalId":255227,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, 2004. ICCAD-2004.","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116640642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incremental deductive & inductive reasoning for SAT-based bounded model checking","authors":"Liang Zhang, M. Prasad, M. Hsiao","doi":"10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382630","url":null,"abstract":"Bounded model checking (BMC) based on Boolean satisfiability (SAT) methods has recently gained popularity as a viable alternative to BDD-based techniques for verifying large designs. This work proposes a number of conceptually simple, but extremely effective, optimizations for enhancing the performance of SAT-based BMC flows. The key ideas include: (1) a novel idea to combine SAT-based inductive reasoning and BMC; (2) clever orchestration of variable ordering and learned information in an incremental framework for BMC; and (3) BMC-specific ordering strategies for the SAT solver. Our experiments, conducted on a wide range of industrial designs, show that the proposed optimizations consistently provide between 1-2 orders of magnitude speedup and can be extremely useful in enhancing the efficacy of typical SAT-BMC tools.","PeriodicalId":255227,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, 2004. ICCAD-2004.","volume":"520 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117341619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Static statistical timing analysis for latch-based pipeline designs","authors":"Rob A. Rutenbar, Li-C. Wang, K. Cheng, S. Kundu","doi":"10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382622","url":null,"abstract":"A latch-based timing analyzer is an essential tool for developing high-speed pipeline designs. As process variations increasingly influence the timing characteristics of DSM designs, a timing analyzer capable of handling process-induced timing variations for latch-based pipeline designs becomes in demand. In this work, we present a static statistical timing analyzer, STAP, for latch-based pipeline designs. Our analyzer propagates statistical worst-case delays as well as critical probabilities across the pipeline stages. We present an efficient method to handle correlations due to re-convergent fanouts. We also demonstrate the impact of not including the analysis of reconvergent fanouts in latch-based pipeline designs. Comparing to a Monte-Carlo based timing analyzer, our experiments show that STAP can accurately evaluate the critical probability that a design violates the timing constraints under a given statistical timing model. The runtime comparison further demonstrates the efficiency of our STAP.","PeriodicalId":255227,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, 2004. ICCAD-2004.","volume":"1053 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127049793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analog performance space exploration by Fourier-Motzkin elimination with application to hierarchical sizing","authors":"G. Stehr, H. Graeb, K. Antreich","doi":"10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382693","url":null,"abstract":"Analog performance space exploration identifies the range of feasible performance values of a given circuit topology. It is an extremely challenging task of great importance to topology selection and hierarchical sizing. In this paper, a novel technique for the efficient simulation-based exploration of high-dimensional performance spaces is presented. To this end, fundamental circuit design knowledge is described by constraint functions. Based on a linearization of the latter and of the circuit performance functions, a description of the feasible performance range in the form of a polytope is derived. Moreover, the approach is integrated into a hierarchical sizing method, where it propagates topological and technological constraints bottom-up. Practical application results demonstrate the efficiency and usefulness of the new method.","PeriodicalId":255227,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, 2004. ICCAD-2004.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115549271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling under a precise energy model considering variable and fixed components of the system power dissipation","authors":"Kihwan Choi, Wonbok Lee, R. Soma, Massoud Pedram","doi":"10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382538","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) technique that minimizes the total system energy consumption for performing a task while satisfying a given execution time constraint. We first show that in order to guarantee minimum energy for task execution by using DVFS it is essential to divide the system power into active and standby power components. Next, we present a new DVFS technique, which considers not only the active power, but also the standby component of the system power. This is in sharp contrast with previous DVFS techniques, which only consider the active power component. We have implemented the proposed DVFS technique on the BitsyX platform - an Intel PXA255-based platform manufactured by ADS Inc., and report detailed power measurements on this platform. These measurements show that, compared to conventional DVFS techniques, an additional system energy saving of up to 18% can be achieved while satisfying the user-specified timing constraints.","PeriodicalId":255227,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, 2004. ICCAD-2004.","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116545729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gate sizing for crosstalk reduction under timing constraints by Lagrangian relaxation","authors":"D. Sinha, H. Zhou","doi":"10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382535","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a post-route, timing-constrained gate-sizing algorithm for crosstalk reduction. Gate-sizing has emerged as a practical and feasible method to reduce crosstalk in deep sub-micron VLSI circuits. It is however critical to ensure that the timing constraints of the circuit are not violated after sizing. We present an iterative gate-sizing algorithm for crosstalk reduction based on Lagrangian relaxation that optimizes area and power while ensuring that the given timing constraints are met. Experimental results demonstrating the effectiveness of the algorithm are reported for the ISCAS benchmarks and other large circuits with comparisons to an alternative design methodology.","PeriodicalId":255227,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, 2004. ICCAD-2004.","volume":"45 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122913382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new incremental placement algorithm and its application to congestion-aware divisor extraction","authors":"S. Chatterjee, R. Brayton","doi":"10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382637","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents two contributions. The first is an incremental placement algorithm for placement-aware logic synthesis along with a proof of optimality. The algorithm can efficiently compute the optimum location for a newly introduced node in a network that minimizes the incremental increase in the total half-perimeter wire-length of the network. The algorithm can be applied in a variety of placement-aware optimization contexts. The second contribution is a specific application of this algorithm to placement-aware common divisor extraction. We evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed extraction procedure by using it in an otherwise non-placement-aware flow with two different final placers. The first flow uses an industrial congestion-driven placer and results in an average reduction of 21% in congestion as measured by the global router. The second flow uses an academic wire-length-driven placer and results in an average reduction of 11% for a tool-specific measure of congestion estimated from the placement. Our experiments also reveal a rather surprising phenomenon: in many cases the attempt to minimize the wire-length results in fewer literals after extraction than with a conventional literal-driven approach.","PeriodicalId":255227,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, 2004. ICCAD-2004.","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126880306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sparse and efficient reduced order modeling of linear subcircuits with large number of terminals","authors":"P. Feldmann, Frank Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382548","url":null,"abstract":"In the process of designing state-of-the art VLSI circuit we often encounter large but highly structured linear subcircuits with large number of terminals. Classical examples are power supply networks, clock distribution networks, large data buses, etc. Various applications would benefit from efficient high level models of such networks. Unfortunately the existing model-order-reduction algorithms are not adapted to handle more than a few tens of terminals. This talk introduces RecMOR, an algorithm for the computation of reduced order models of structured linear circuits with numerous I/O ports. The algorithm exploits certain regularities of the subcircuit response that are typical in numerous applications of interest. When these regularities are present, the normally dense matrix-transfer function of the subcircuit contains sub-blocks that in some sense are significantly low rank and can be compactly modeled by the recently introduced SVDMOR algorithm. The new RecMOR algorithm decomposes the large matrix-transfer function recursively, and applies SVDMOR compression adaptively to the sub-blocks of the transfer function. The result is a reduced order model that is sparse, efficient, and directly usable as an efficient substitute of the subcircuit in circuit simulations. The method is illustrated on several circuit examples.","PeriodicalId":255227,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, 2004. ICCAD-2004.","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114534508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Glebov, S. Gavrilov, R. Soloviev, V. Zolotov, M. Becer, C. Oh, R. Panda
{"title":"Delay noise pessimism reduction by logic correlations","authors":"A. Glebov, S. Gavrilov, R. Soloviev, V. Zolotov, M. Becer, C. Oh, R. Panda","doi":"10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD.2004.1382564","url":null,"abstract":"High-performance digital circuits are facing increasingly severe signal integrity problems due to crosstalk noise and therefore the state-of-the-art static timing analysis (STA) methods consider crosstalk-induced delay variation. Current noise-aware STA methods compute noise-induced delay uncertainty for each net independently and annotate appropriate delay changes of nets onto data paths and associated clock paths to determine timing violations. Since delay changes in individual nets contribute cumulatively to delay changes of paths, even small amounts of pessimism in noise computation of nets can add up to produce large timing violations for paths, which may be unrealistic. Unlike glitch noise analysis where noise often attenuates during propagation, quality of delay noise analysis is severely affected by any pessimism in noise estimation and can unnecessarily cost valuable silicon and design resources for fixing unreal violations. In this paper, we propose a method to reduce pessimism in noise-aware STA by considering signal correlations of all nets associated with an entire timing path simultaneously, in a path-based approach. We first present an exact algorithm based on the branch-and-bound technique and then extend it with several heuristic techniques so that very large industrial designs can be analyzed efficiently. These techniques, which are implemented in an industrial crosstalk noise analysis tool, show as much as 75% reduction in the computed path delay variations.","PeriodicalId":255227,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, 2004. ICCAD-2004.","volume":"228 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116196723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}