A practical repeater insertion method in high speed VLSI circuits

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 392-395

  Culetu, Julian ^a   Amir, Chaim ^a   MacDonald, John ^a  

^a SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TIMING CIRCUITS; VLSI CIRCUITS; ALGORITHMS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS;

ELMORE DELAY; GATE INPUT; HIGH SPEED; HIGH SPEED CIRCUIT; PHYSICAL LOCATIONS; RC MODELS; REPEATER INSERTION; TRANSITION TIME;

DELAY CIRCUITS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

PRACTICAL REPEATER INSERTION METHODS; STANDARD PARASITIC FORMAT (SPF);

EID: 0031642072     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/277044.277151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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