{"title":"ICCAP: a linear time sparse transformation and reordering algorithm for 3D BEM capacitance extraction","authors":"Rong Jiang, Yi-Hao Chang, C. C. Chen","doi":"10.1145/1065579.1065623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1065579.1065623","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an efficient hierarchical 3D capacitance extraction algorithm - ICCAP. Most previous capacitance extraction algorithms introduce intermediate variables to facilitate the hierarchical potential calculation but still preserve the leaf panels as the basis. In this paper, we discover that those intermediate variables are fundamentally much better basis than leaf panels. As a result, we are able to explicitly construct the sparse potential coefficient matrix and solve it with linear memory in linear runtime. Furthermore, the explicit sparse formulation not only enables the usage of preconditioned iterative Krylov subspace methods but also the reordering technique. A new reordering technique is proposed to further reduce over 20% of memory consumption and runtime in comparison to no reordering techniques applied. Experimental results demonstrate the superior runtime and memory consumption of ICCAP over previous approaches while achieving similar accuracy.","PeriodicalId":397347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 42nd Design Automation Conference, 2005.","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114616368","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":"Circuit optimization using statistical static timing analysis","authors":"A. Agarwal, K. Chopra, D. Blaauw, V. Zolotov","doi":"10.1145/1065579.1065663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1065579.1065663","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a new sensitivity based, statistical gate sizing method. Since circuit optimization effects the entire shape of the circuit delay distribution, it is difficult to capture the quality of a distribution with a single metric. Hence, we first introduce a new objective function that provides an effective measure for the quality of a delay distribution for both ASIC and high performance designs. We then propose an efficient and exact sensitivity based pruning algorithm based on a newly proposed theory of perturbation bounds. A heuristic approach for sensitivity computation which relies on efficient computation of statistical slack is then introduced. Finally, we show how the pruning and statistical slack based approaches can be combined to obtain nearly identical results compared with the brute-force approach but with an average run-time improvement of up to 89/spl times/. We also compare the optimization results against that of a deterministic optimizer and show an improvement up to 16% in the 99-percentile circuit delay and up to 31% in the standard deviation for the same circuit area.","PeriodicalId":397347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 42nd Design Automation Conference, 2005.","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116907730","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":"Performance space modeling for hierarchical synthesis of analog integrated circuits","authors":"G. Gielen, Trent McConaghy, T. Eeckelaert","doi":"10.1145/1065579.1065809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1065579.1065809","url":null,"abstract":"Automated analog sizing is becoming an unavoidable solution for increasing analog design productivity. The complexity of typical analog SoC subsystems however calls for efficient methods that can handle design hierarchy, in terms of both performance estimation and hierarchical design optimization method. This paper discusses and compares recent developments in this area, with special emphasis on automated modeling and on multi-objective bottom-up hierarchical design.","PeriodicalId":397347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 42nd Design Automation Conference, 2005.","volume":" 19","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120827266","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":"An exact jumper insertion algorithm for antenna effect avoidance/fixing","authors":"Bor-Yiing Su, Yao-Wen Chang","doi":"10.1145/1065579.1065664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1065579.1065664","url":null,"abstract":"As the process technology enters the nanometer era, reliability has become a major concern in the design and manufacturing of VLSI circuits. In this paper we focus on one reliability issue - jumper insertion in routing trees for avoiding/fixing antenna effect violations at the routing/post-layout stages. We formulate the jumper insertion for antenna avoidance/fixing as a tree-cutting problem. We show that the tree-cutting problem exhibits the properties of optimal substructures and greedy choices. With these properties, we present an O(V lg V)-time exact jumper insertion algorithm that uses the optimum number of jumpers to avoid/fix the antenna violations in a routing tree with V vertices. Experimental results show the superior effectiveness and efficiency of our algorithm.","PeriodicalId":397347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 42nd Design Automation Conference, 2005.","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124764430","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":"MiniBit: bit-width optimization via affine arithmetic","authors":"Dong-U Lee, A. A. Gaffar, O. Mencer, W. Luk","doi":"10.1145/1065579.1065799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1065579.1065799","url":null,"abstract":"MiniBit, our automated approach for optimizing bit-widths of fixed-point designs is based on static analysis via affine arithmetic. We describe methods to minimize both the integer and fraction parts of fixed-point signals with the aim of minimizing circuit area. Our range analysis technique identifies the number of integer bits required. For precision analysis, we employ a semi-analytical approach with analytical error models in conjunction with adaptive simulated annealing to find the optimum number of fraction bits. Improvements for a given design reduce area and latency by up to 20% and 12% respectively, over optimum uniform fraction bit-widths on a Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA.","PeriodicalId":397347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 42nd Design Automation Conference, 2005.","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125654777","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":"Flexible ASIC: shared masking for multiple media processors","authors":"J. Wong, F. Koushanfar, M. Potkonjak","doi":"10.1145/1065579.1065818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1065579.1065818","url":null,"abstract":"ASIC provides more than an order of magnitude advantage in terms of density, speed, and power requirement per gate. However, economic (cost of masks) and technological (deep micron manufacturability) trends favor FPGA as an implementation platform. In order to combine the advantages of both platforms and alleviate their disadvantages, recently a number of approaches, such as structured ASIC/regular fabrics, have been proposed. Our goal is to introduce an approach that has the same objective, but is orthogonal to those already proposed. The idea is to implement several ASIC designs in such a way that they share the datapath, memory structure, and several bottom layers of interconnect, while each design has only a few unique metal layers. We identified and addressed two main problems in our quest to develop a CAD flow for realization of such designs. They are: (i) the creation of the datapath, and (ii) the identification of common and unique interconnect for each design. Both problems are solved optimally using ILP formulations. We assembled a design flow platform using two new programs and the Trimaran and Shade tools. We quantitatively analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the approach using the Mediabench benchmark suite.","PeriodicalId":397347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 42nd Design Automation Conference, 2005.","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132423009","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":"TCAM enabled on-chip logic minimization","authors":"Seraj Ahmad, R. Mahapatra","doi":"10.1145/1065579.1065759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1065579.1065759","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an efficient hardware architecture of an on-chip logic minimization coprocessor. The proposed architecture employs TCAM cells to provide fastest and memory efficient implementation suitable for emerging on-chip minimization applications. The paper presents a detailed design of the on-chip minimizer and shows that it requires very little hardware resources to achieve acceptable quality of minimization. An incremental insertion and bulk deletion is achieved in 0.25 /spl mu/s and 3.8 ms respectively and a compaction of 100000 entries in 25 ms using just 300 TCAM entries.","PeriodicalId":397347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 42nd Design Automation Conference, 2005.","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130886262","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":"Low power network processor design using clock gating","authors":"Yan Luo, Jia Yu, Jun Yang, L. Bhuyan","doi":"10.1145/1065579.1065766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1065579.1065766","url":null,"abstract":"Network processors (NPs) have emerged as successful platforms to providing both high performance and flexibility in building powerful routers. Typical NPs incorporate multiprocessing and multi-threading to achieve maximum parallel processing capabilities. We observed that under low incoming traffic rates, most processing elements (PEs) in NPs are nearly idle and yet still consume dynamic power. This paper develops a low power technique to reduce the activities of PEs according to the varying traffic volume. We propose to monitor the average number of idle threads in a time window, and gate off the clock network of unused PEs when a subset of PEs is enough to handle the network traffic. We show that our technique brings significant reduction in power consumption (up to 30%) of NPs with no packet loss and little impact to the overall throughput.","PeriodicalId":397347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 42nd Design Automation Conference, 2005.","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131729104","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":"Deterministic approaches to analog performance space exploration (PSE)","authors":"D. Mueller, G. Stehr, H. Graeb, Ulf Schlichtmann","doi":"10.1145/1065579.1065807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1065579.1065807","url":null,"abstract":"Performance space exploration (PSE) determines the range of feasible performance values of a circuit block for a given topology and technology. In this paper, we present two deterministic approaches for PSE. One approximates the feasible performance space based on linearized circuit models and is suitable for investigating a large number of performances. The other one computes discretizations of the Pareto front of competing performances. In addition, a motivation and application of PSE using a hierarchical design example is presented.","PeriodicalId":397347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 42nd Design Automation Conference, 2005.","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126247295","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":"Minimising buffer requirements of synchronous dataflow graphs with model checking","authors":"M. Geilen, T. Basten, S. Stuijk","doi":"10.1145/1065579.1065796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1065579.1065796","url":null,"abstract":"Signal processing and multimedia applications are often implemented on resource constrained embedded systems. It is therefore important to find implementations that use as little resources as possible. These applications are frequently specified as synchronous data flow graphs. Communication between actors of these graphs requires storage capacity. In this paper, we present an exact method to determine the minimum storage capacity required to execute the graph using model-checking techniques. This can be done for different measures of storage capacity. The problem is known to be NP-complete and because of this, existing buffer minimisation techniques are heuristics and hence not exact. Modern model-checking tools are quite efficient and they have been successfully applied to scheduling-related problems. We study the feasibility of this approach with examples.","PeriodicalId":397347,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 42nd Design Automation Conference, 2005.","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121005892","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}