Optimal placement of power supply pads and pins

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 165-170

  Zhao, Min ^a   Fu, Yuhong ^a   Zolotov, Vladimir ^a   Sundareswaran, Savithri ^a   Panda, Rajendran ^a  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Pad optimization; Pad placement

Indexed keywords

BEARING PADS; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY; VLSI CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

MACROMODELING; PAD OPTIMIZATION; PAD PLACEMENT; POWER SUPPLY NETWORK;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 4444364132     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/996566.996615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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