Sensitivity-based gate delay propagation in static timing analysis

Proceedings - International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 536-541

  Nazarian, Shahin ^a   Pedram, Massoud ^a   Tuncer, Emre ^b   Lin, Tao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAGMA DESIGN AUTOMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ENERGY-BASED TECHNIQUES; HYBRID TECHNIQUES; IMPACT OF NOISE; INTERMEDIATE NODE; OUTPUT WAVEFORM; STATIC TIMING ANALYSIS; TIME INSTANCES; TIMING ANALYSIS;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

TOOLS;

EID: 33748631780     PISSN: 19483287     EISSN: 19483295     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISQED.2005.108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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