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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"design automation"”.
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Computer methods for design automation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1992.
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Design automation algorithms for advanced lithography
… enormous opportunities, they also pose great design challenges due to their unique process characteristics and stringent constraints. In order to smoothly adopt these advanced lithography technologies in integrated circuit (IC) fabrication, effective electronic design automation (EDA) …
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Routing algorithms for electronic design automation
In electronic design automation (EDA), routing is one of the most important tasks for both printed circuit boards (PCB) and integration circuits (IC). After placement, which determines the location of each component on a PCB or element of an IC, the routing step adds wires needed to properly …
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Semantic analysis for system level design automation
This thesis describes the design and implementation of a system to extract meaning from natural language specifications of digital systems. This research is part of the ASPIN project which has the long-term goal of providing an automated system for digital system synthesis from informal …
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New methods for electronic design automation problems
… the 14nm node and beyond, EDA (electronic design automation) has rapidly increased in importance with ever more complicated modern integration circuit (IC) designs. This presents many new issues for EDA including design, manufacturing, and packaging. Challenging EDA problems in these three …
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Algorithms for Logic Design Automation (Rtcad, Synthesis)
… circuit grows, the complexity and length of the design process increases also. Consequently, there have been increased efforts in recent years directed at developing tools to ease design tasks, mostly the physical tasks such as layout and routing. For low volume applications of integrated …
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New strategies for electronic design automation problems
… towards 22 nm technology and beyond, circuit design has become unprecedentedly omplicated. This presents many new challenges for EDA (electronic design automation), such as lack of effective tools for analog circuit or high-volume and high-frequency printed circuit board (PCB) design, the …
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Algorithms for DFM in electronic design automation
… the limit of physics at the expense of design flexibility. On the other hand, IC designs inevitably becomes more complex to meet the increasing demand of computational power. To close this gap, design for manufacturing (DFM) becomes the key to enable an easy and low-cost IC fabrication. …
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Formal methods for design automation application development
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1997.
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Advances in parallel programming for electronic design automation
… not only the chip capacity but also the circuit design complexity. How does one efficiently design a chip with millions or billions transistors? This has become a challenging problem in the integrated circuit (IC) design industry, especially for the developers of electronic design automation …
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Design automation for circuit reliability and energy efficiency
… logic synthesis, and functional unit design. A variety of algorithmic methods and heuristics are used in our approaches such as SAT solving, data mining, logic restructuring, and applied mathematics. Furthermore, the scalability of our approaches was taken into account while we …
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Architectures and Design Automation for Photonic Networks On Chip
… distance traveled. In practice, physical-layer design and engineering issues such as optical loss, crosstalk, and packaging have slowed its entry into widespread adoption at the chip and board scale. In this work, we present these issues and potential design improvements. The major …
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Engineering Design Automation via Imitation Learning and Reinforcement Learning
… yet its application to automating engineering design faces significant challenges, including slow training times and poor generalization. Traditional RL methods require exploring millions of design states, which is computationally expensive, especially when dealing with complex physics models. …
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Design Automation for Reliable CMOS Chip Input/output Circuits
Thermal failure is one of the most prevalent failure mechanism during the Human Body Model (HBM) ESD stress. Previous circuit thermal model (integrator circuit) in iETSIM only applies for constant current stress. A general thermal model using convolution is developed. New techniques are proposed to …
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Design automation and analysis of three-dimensional integrated circuits
This dissertation concerns the design of circuits and systems for an emerging technology known as three-dimensional integration. By stacking individual components, dice, or whole wafers using a high-density electromechanical interconnect, three-dimensional integration can achieve scalability and …
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JHDLBits: An Open-Source Model for FPGA Design Automation
… could use an extensible tool flow enabling designers to examine new algorithms and new methods of interacting with FPGA configurations. One such flow is JHDLBits, which integrates two prominent FPGA design environments: JHDL and JBits. JHDLBits offers the low-level access and control …
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Machine Learning for Analog/Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Design Automation
… Despite such critical importance, conventional design strategies of AMS circuits still follow an expensive and time-consuming manual process and are unable to meet the exponentially-growing productivity demands from industry and satisfy the rapidly-changing design specifications from many …
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Design automation and QoS requirements preservation for multiprocessor embedded systems
… not better leveraged due to the inflexibility of design and implementation for multiprocessor embedded system applications. A higher level abstraction (i.e., a parallel programming framework) can ease the programmers to define parallelism for tasks in an application, but designers still face the …
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Switching control systems and their design automation via genetic algorithms
… conventional 3-D rule-base fuzzy PID control design is both computationally intensive and suffers from prolonged design times caused by a large dimensional rule-base. The size of the rule base will increase exponentially with the increase of the number of fuzzy sets used for each input …
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Design automation for high performance complementary metal oxide-semiconductor VLSI circuits
… Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuit design. Dynamic CMOS circuits are implemented judiciously to increase the packing density and lower the power consumption. A design automation system, iCOACH, which dynamically generates cells as needed for each job according to their circumstantial …
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