Volume 17, Number 1, January 1998

Charles J. Alpert, Tony F. Chan, Andrew B. Kahng, Igor L. Markov, Pep Mulet: Faster minimization of linear wirelength for global placement. 3-13
Jeffrey L. Burns, Jack A. Feldman: C5M-a control-logic layout synthesis system for high-performance microprocessors. 14-23
Jason Cong, Andrew B. Kahng, Kwok-Shing Leung: Efficient algorithms for the minimum shortest path Steiner arborescence problem with applications to VLSI physical design. 24-39
Rony Kay, Lawrence T. Pileggi: EWA: efficient wiring-sizing algorithm for signal nets and clock nets. 40-49
Huiqun Liu, Martin D. F. Wong: Network-flow-based multiway partitioning with area and pin constraints. 50-59
Hiroshi Murata, Kunihiro Fujiyoshi, Mineo Kaneko: VLSI/PCB placement with obstacles based on sequence pair. 60-68
Volume 17, Number 2, February 1998
Radu Marculescu, Diana Marculescu, Massoud Pedram: Probabilistic modeling of dependencies during switching activity analysis. 73-83
James E. Beck, Daniel P. Siewiorek: Automatic configuration of embedded multicomputer systems. 84-95
Preeti Ranjan Panda, Nikil D. Dutt, Alexandru Nicolau: Incorporating DRAM access modes into high-level synthesis. 96-109
Lieven Vandenberghe, Stephen P. Boyd, Abbas A. El Gamal: Optimizing dominant time constant in RC circuits. 110-125
Parthasarathi Dasgupta, Susmita Sur-Kolay, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya: A unified approach to topology generation and optimal sizing of floorplans. 126-135
Kaiyuan Huang, Vinod K. Agarwal, Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman: Diagnosis of clustered faults and wafer testing. 136-148
Valery Axelrad: Grid quality and its influence on accuracy and convergence in device simulation. 149-157
Sujit Dey, Vijay Gangaram, Miodrag Potkonjak: A controller redesign technique to enhance testability of controller-data path circuits. 157-168
Steve H. Jen, Bing J. Sheu: A compact and unified MOS DC current model with highly continuous conductances for low-voltage ICs. 169-172
Harsha Sathyamurthy, Sachin S. Sapatnekar, John P. Fishburn: Speeding up pipelined circuits through a combination of gate sizing and clock skew optimization. 173-182
Chia-Chun Tsai, Chwan-Ming Wang, Sao-Jie Chen: NEWS: a net-even-wiring system for the routing on a multilayer PGA package. 182-189
Volume 17, Number 3, March 1998
Thang Nguyen Bui, Byung Ro Moon: GRCA: a hybrid genetic algorithm for circuit ratio-cut partitioning. 193-204
Peter A. Beerel, Chris J. Myers, Teresa H. Y. Meng: Covering conditions and algorithms for the synthesis of speed-independent circuits. 205-219
Luca Benini, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino, Giovanni De Micheli: Telescopic units: a new paradigm for performance optimization of VLSI designs. 220-232
D. Michael Miller: An improved method for computing a generalized spectral coefficient. 233-238
Michael S. Hsiao, Elizabeth M. Rudnick, Janak H. Patel: Application of genetically engineered finite-state-machine sequences to sequential circuit ATPG. 239-254
David B. Lavo, Brian Chess, Tracy Larrabee, F. Joel Ferguson: Diagnosing realistic bridging faults with single stuck-at information. 255-268
Irith Pomeranz, Sudhakar M. Reddy: Low-complexity fault simulation under the multiple observation time and the restricted multiple observation time testing approaches. 269-278
José C. Monteiro, Srinivas Devadas, Abhijit Ghosh: Sequential logic optimization for low power using input-disabling precomputation architectures. 279-284
Volume 17, Number 4, April 1998
Daniel Brand, Reinaldo A. Bergamaschi, Leon Stok: Don't cares in synthesis: theoretical pitfalls and practical solutions. 285-304
Ali M. Niknejad, Ranjit Gharpurey, Robert G. Meyer: Numerically stable Green function for modeling and analysis of substrate coupling in integrated circuits. 305-315
Kai Zhu, Martin D. F. Wong: Switch bound allocation for maximizing routability in timing-driven routing of FPGA's. 316-323
Marwan A. Gharaybeh, Michael L. Bushnell, Vishwani D. Agrawal: The path-status graph with application to delay fault simulation. 324-332
Irith Pomeranz, Sudhakar M. Reddy: Design-for-testability for path delay faults in large combinational circuits using test points. 333-343
Alessandro Balboni, Claudio Costi, Massimo Pellencin, Andrea Quadrini, Donatella Sciuto: Clock skew reduction in ASIC logic design: a methodology for clock tree management. 344-356
David Ihsin Cheng, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Deborah C. Wang, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska: A hybrid methodology for switching activities estimation. 357-366
M. K. Kidambi, Akhilesh Tyagi, Mohammed R. Madani, Magdy A. Bayoumi: Three-dimensional defect sensitivity modeling for open circuits in ULSI structures. 366-371
Suet Fong Tin, Ashraf A. Osman, Kartikeya Mayaram: Comments on "A small-signal MOSFET model for radio frequency IC applications". 372-374
Volume 17, Number 5, May 1998
Herman Schmit, Donald E. Thomas: Address generation for memories containing multiple arrays. 377-385
Mitrajit Chatterjee, Dhiraj K. Pradhan, Wolfgang Kunz: LOT: Logic Optimization with Testability. New transformations for logic synthesis. 386-399
Masaki Kondo, Hidetoshi Onodera, Keikichi Tamaru: Model-adaptable MOSFET parameter-extraction method using an intermediate model. 400-405
Kerry S. Lowe, P. Glenn Gulak: A joint gate sizing and buffer insertion method for optimizing delay and power in CMOS and BiCMOS combinational logic. 419-434
Vladimir B. Dmitriev-Zdorov: Multicycle generalization. A new way to improve the convergence of waveform relaxation for circuit simulation. 435-443
John F. Beetem: Rebel: a clustering algorithm for look-up table FPGA's. 444-451
Krishnendu Chakrabarty: Zero-aliasing space compaction using linear compactors with bounded overhead. 452-457
Rolf Drechsler, Martin Sauerhoff, Detlef Sieling: The complexity of the inclusion operation on OFDD's. 457-459
Juho Kim, David Hung-Chang Du: Performance optimization by gate sizing and path sensitization. 459-462
Volume 17, Number 6, June 1998
Chih-Shun Ding, Qing Wu, Cheng-Ta Hsieh, Massoud Pedram: Stratified random sampling for power estimation. 465-471
Evguenii I. Goldberg, Tiziano Villa, Robert K. Brayton, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli: Theory and algorithms for face hypercube embedding. 472-488
Peichen Pan, Arvind K. Karandikar, C. L. Liu: Optimal clock period clustering for sequential circuits with retiming. 489-498
Sudip Nag, Rob A. Rutenbar: Performance-driven simultaneous placement and routing for FPGA's. 499-518
Shigetoshi Nakatake, Kunihiro Fujiyoshi, Hiroshi Murata, Yoji Kajitani: Module packing based on the BSG-structure and IC layout applications. 519-530
Naveena Nagi, Abhijit Chatterjee, Heebyung Yoon, Jacob A. Abraham: Signature analysis for analog and mixed-signal circuit test response compaction. 540-546
Shangzhi Sun, David Hung-Chang Du, Hsi-Chuan Chen: Efficient timing analysis for CMOS circuits considering data dependent delays. 546-552
Volume 17, Number 7, July 1998
Koichi Fukuda, Kenji Nishi: An interpolated flux scheme for cellular automaton device simulation. 553-560
Ernst Leitner, Siegfried Selberherr: Mixed-element decomposition method for three-dimensional grid adaptation. 561-572
Harm Arts, Michel R. C. M. Berkelaar, Koen van Eijk: Computing observability don't cares efficiently through polarization. 573-581
Kevin J. Kerns, Andrew T. Yang: Preservation of passivity during RLC network reduction via split congruence transformations. 582-591
Daniel R. Brasen, Gabriele Saucier: Using cone structures for circuit partitioning into FPGA packages. 592-600
Stan Y. Liao, Srinivas Devadas, Kurt Keutzer: Code density optimization for embedded DSP processors using data compression techniques. 601-608
Michael Jünger, Sebastian Leipert, Petra Mutzel: A note on computing a maximal planar subgraph using PQ-trees. 609-612
A. R. Naseer, M. Balakrishnan, Anshul Kumar: Direct mapping of RTL structures onto LUT-based FPGA's. 624-631
Raymond S. Winton, William R. Bandy: A simple, continuous, analytical charge/capacitance model for the short-channel MOSFET. 631-638
Volume 17, Number 8, August 1998
Yuhua Cheng, Kai Chen, Kiyotaka Imai, Chenming Hu: A unified MOSFET channel charge model for device modeling in circuit simulation. 641-644
Altan Odabasioglu, Mustafa Celik, Lawrence T. Pileggi: PRIMA: passive reduced-order interconnect macromodeling algorithm. 645-654
Yi-Kan Cheng, Prasun Raha, Chin-Chi Teng, Elyse Rosenbaum, Sung-Mo Kang: ILLIADS-T: an electrothermal timing simulator for temperature-sensitive reliability diagnosis of CMOS VLSI chips. 668-681
Chih-Ang Chen, Sandeep K. Gupta: Efficient BIST TPG design and test set compaction via input reduction. 692-705
Indradeep Ghosh, Anand Raghunathan, Niraj K. Jha: A design-for-testability technique for register-transfer level circuits using control/data flow extraction. 706-723
Shih-Arn Hwang, Jin-Hua Hong, Cheng-Wen Wu: Sequential circuit fault simulation using logic emulation. 724-736
Volume 17, Number 9, September 1998
Jason Cong, Chang Wu: An efficient algorithm for performance-optimal FPGA technology mapping with retiming. 738-748
Alex Kondratyev, Michael Kishinevsky, Alexandre Yakovlev: Hazard-free implementation of speed-independent circuits. 749-771
Kenneth Y. Yun, Bill Lin, David L. Dill, Srinivas Devadas: BDD-based synthesis of extended burst-mode controllers. 782-792
Nozomu Togawa, Masao Yanagisawa, Tatsuo Ohtsuki: Maple-opt: a performance-oriented simultaneous technology mapping, placement, and global routing algorithm for FPGAs. 803-818
Asawaree Kalavade, P. A. Subrahmanyam: Hardware/software partitioning for multifunction systems. 819-837
Chih-Chang Lin, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Mike Tien-Chien Lee: Test-point insertion: scan paths through functional logic. 838-851
Chih-Chang Lin, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska, Mike Tien-Chien Lee, Kuang-Chien Chen: Cost-free scan: a low-overhead scan path design. 852-861
Zhihua Wang, Georges G. E. Gielen, Willy M. C. Sansen: Probabilistic fault detection and the selection of measurements for analog integrated circuits. 862-872
Marwan A. Gharaybeh, Michael L. Bushnell, Vishwani D. Agrawal: A parallel-vector concurrent-fault simulator and generation of single-input-change tests for path-delay faults. 873-876
Yiming Gong, Sreejit Chakravarty: Locating bridging faults using dynamically computed stuck-at fault dictionaries. 876-887
Volume 17, Number 10, October 1998
Ali Dasdan, Rajesh K. Gupta: Faster maximum and minimum mean cycle algorithms for system-performance analysis. 889-899
Bharat P. Dave, Niraj K. Jha: COHRA: hardware-software cosynthesis of hierarchical heterogeneous distributed embedded systems. 900-919
Robert P. Dick, Niraj K. Jha: MOGAC: a multiobjective genetic algorithm for hardware-software cosynthesis of distributed embedded systems. 920-935
Miodrag Potkonjak, Mani B. Srivastava: Behavioral optimization using the manipulation of timing constraints. 936-947
Rolf Drechsler, Bernd Becker: Ordered Kronecker functional decision diagrams-a data structure for representation and manipulation of Boolean functions. 965-973
Taewhan Kim, William Jao, Steven W. K. Tjiang: Circuit optimization using carry-save-adder cells. 974-984
Michael D. Hutton, Jonathan Rose, Jerry P. Grossman, Derek G. Corneil: Characterization and parameterized generation of synthetic combinational benchmark circuits. 985-996
Ramachandra Achar, Michel S. Nakhla, Qi-Jun Zhang: Full-wave analysis of high-speed interconnects using complex frequency hopping. 997-1016
Irith Pomeranz, Sudhakar M. Reddy: Test sequences to achieve high defect coverage for synchronous sequential circuits. 1017-1029
Jing-Jou Tang, Kuen-Jong Lee, Bin-Da Liu: A graph representation for programmable logic arrays to facilitate testing and logic design. 1030-1043
Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Brian T. Murray: Design of built-in test generator circuits using width compression. 1044-1051
Vivek Tiwari, Sharad Malik, Pranav Ashar: Guarded evaluation: pushing power management to logic synthesis/design. 1051-1060
Volume 17, Number 11, November 1998
Enrico Macii, Massoud Pedram, Fabio Somenzi: High-level power modeling, estimation, and optimization. 1061-1079
Cheng-Ta Hsieh, Massoud Pedram: Microprocessor power estimation using profile-driven program synthesis. 1080-1089
Chih-Shun Ding, Chi-Ying Tsui, Massoud Pedram: Gate-level power estimation using tagged probabilistic simulation. 1099-1107
Enric Pastor, Jordi Cortadella, Alex Kondratyev, Oriol Roig: Structural methods for the synthesis of speed-independent circuits. 1108-1129
Michael Theobald, Steven M. Nowick: Fast heuristic and exact algorithms for two-level hazard-free logic minimization. 1130-1147
Rui Martins, Wolfgang Pyka, Rainer Sabelka, Siegfried Selberherr: High-precision interconnect analysis. 1148-1159
Mahesh B. Patil: New discretization scheme for two-dimensional semiconductor device simulation on triangular grid. 1160-1165
Hannah Honghua Yang, Martin D. F. Wong: Optimal min-area min-cut replication in partitioned circuits. 1175-1183
Michael Kishinevsky, Alex Kondratyev, Luciano Lavagno, Alexander Saldanha, Alexander Taubin: Partial-scan delay fault testing of asynchronous circuits. 1184-1199
Haluk Konuk, F. Joel Ferguson: Oscillation and sequential behavior caused by opens in the routing in digital CMOS circuits. 1200-1210
Radomir S. Stankovic: Some remarks on terminology in spectral techniques for logic design: Walsh transform and Hadamard matrices. 1211-1214
Volume 17, Number 12, December 1998
Edward A. Lee, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli: A framework for comparing models of computation. 1217-1229
Carl J. Wordelman, Thomas J. T. Kwan, Charles M. Snell: Comparison of statistical enhancement methods for Monte Carlo semiconductor simulation. 1230-1235
Walter Bohmayr, Alexander Burenkov, Jürgen Lorenz, Heiner Ryssel, Siegfried Selberherr: Monte Carlo simulation of silicon amorphization during ion implantation. 1236-1243
Richard Plasun, Michael Stockinger, Siegfried Selberherr: Integrated optimization capabilities in the VISTA technology CAD framework. 1244-1251
M. B. Anand, Hideki Shibata, Masakazu Kakumu: Multiobjective optimization of VLSI interconnect parameters. 1252-1261
Aurobindo Dasgupta, Ramesh Karri: High-reliability, low-energy microarchitecture synthesis. 1273-1280
Chi-Ying Tsui, Massoud Pedram, Alvin M. Despain: Low-power state assignment targeting two- and multilevel logic implementations. 1281-1291
Andrew R. Conn, Paula K. Coulman, Ruud A. Haring, Gregory L. Morrill, Chandramouli Visweswariah, Chai Wah Wu: JiffyTune: circuit optimization using time-domain sensitivities. 1292-1309
Jacob Savir: Random pattern testability of memory address logic. 1310-1318
Pierre-Yves Calland, Anne Mignotte, Olivier Peyran, Yves Robert, Frédéric Vivien: Retiming DAGs [direct acyclic graph]. 1319-1325
Vinay Dabholkar, Sreejit Chakravarty, Irith Pomeranz, Sudhakar M. Reddy: Techniques for minimizing power dissipation in scan and combinational circuits during test application. 1325-1333



