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Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition Volume II (DATE'04)
Fast Comparisons of Circuit Implementations
Paris, France
February 16-February 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2085-5
Shrirang K. Karandikar, University of Minnesota
Sachin S. Sapatnekar, University of Minnesota
Digital designs can be mapped to different implementations using diverse approaches, with varying cost criteria. Post-processing transforms, such as transistor sizing can drastically improve circuit performance, by optimizing critical paths to meet timing specifications. However, most transistor sizing tools have high execution times, and the attainable circuit delay can be determined only after running the tool. In this paper, we present an approach for fast transistor sizing that can enable a designer to choose one among several functionally identical implementations. Our algorithm computes the minimum achievable delay of a circuit with a maximum average error of 5.5% in less than a second for even the largest benchmarks.
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Shrirang K. Karandikar, Sachin S. Sapatnekar, "Fast Comparisons of Circuit Implementations," date, vol. 2, pp.20910, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition Volume II (DATE'04), 2004
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