Over the course of 60 years, since the invention of the integrated circuit (IC), exponential improvements in cost, performance and power consumption were observed. Such advances have been strongly linked with the continuous reduction of the dimensions in manufactured ICs, but this trend has shown decreasing benefits as fundamental limits are reached. Notice that such tiny devices have increased variability, which generates unpredictable variations in the behavior of the manufactured devices. These uncertainties are typically addressed by defining margins on the clock period, estimated during the design phase. However, the overly conservative margins produce significant degradations in performance. Additionally, the evolution that enabled ...
As an increase of intelligent and self-powered devices is forecasted for our future everyday life, t...
Power consumption in field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has become an important issue as the FPG...
In this thesis we tackle one of the most important fields of research, which is reducing power consu...
Over the course of 60 years, since the invention of the integrated circuit (IC), exponential improve...
textLogic optimization and clock network optimization for power, performance and area trade-off have...
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60294-1_108Althou...
CMOS technology has continuously scaled into deep sub-micron regime. With CMOS scaling, many complex...
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are one of the most popular platforms for implementing digita...
Circuits implemented in FPGAs have delays that are dom-inated by its programmable interconnect. This...
The evolution of integrated circuits technologies demands the development of new CAD tools. The trad...
Improvements in circuit manufacturing have allowed, along the years, increasingly complex designs. ...
FPGA clock networks consume a significant amount of power, since they toggle every clock cycle and m...
As Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) capacity can now support several processors on a single devi...
Integrated circuit (IC) design at the scale of billions of circuit elements would be unimag-inable w...
We study several optimization problems that arise in the design of VLSI circuits, with the satisfact...
As an increase of intelligent and self-powered devices is forecasted for our future everyday life, t...
Power consumption in field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has become an important issue as the FPG...
In this thesis we tackle one of the most important fields of research, which is reducing power consu...
Over the course of 60 years, since the invention of the integrated circuit (IC), exponential improve...
textLogic optimization and clock network optimization for power, performance and area trade-off have...
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60294-1_108Althou...
CMOS technology has continuously scaled into deep sub-micron regime. With CMOS scaling, many complex...
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are one of the most popular platforms for implementing digita...
Circuits implemented in FPGAs have delays that are dom-inated by its programmable interconnect. This...
The evolution of integrated circuits technologies demands the development of new CAD tools. The trad...
Improvements in circuit manufacturing have allowed, along the years, increasingly complex designs. ...
FPGA clock networks consume a significant amount of power, since they toggle every clock cycle and m...
As Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) capacity can now support several processors on a single devi...
Integrated circuit (IC) design at the scale of billions of circuit elements would be unimag-inable w...
We study several optimization problems that arise in the design of VLSI circuits, with the satisfact...
As an increase of intelligent and self-powered devices is forecasted for our future everyday life, t...
Power consumption in field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has become an important issue as the FPG...
In this thesis we tackle one of the most important fields of research, which is reducing power consu...