Beat the competition: A knowledge-based design process addressing the antenna effect and cell placement

IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 18-27

  Chen, Peter ^a  

^a FARADAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNAS; APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOS DEVICES; PLASMA ETCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; WSI CIRCUITS;

ANTENNA EFFECT; CELL PLACEMENT; COMBINATORIAL ANNEALING METHOD; KNOWLEDGE BASED PRIORITY PLACEMENT; PROTECTION DIODE;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EID: 3242669723     PISSN: 87553996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCD.2004.1304538     Document Type: Article

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