SOI technology for state of the art CMOS technology is rapidly approaching maturity. PD-SOI device design has the advantage of easier manufacturing but requires more sophisticated device and circuit design to reduce the effects of the floating-body. FD-SOI device design potentially has the advantage of no floating-body effects but requires very thin silicon films making manufacturing more chall...

A CAD environment leading from technology to performance evaluation by integrating process, device, and circuit simulation would be a valuable tool for the development of monolithic microwave circuits. The paper focuses on the linkage between a physical device simulator for smalland large-signal characterization, and CAD tools for both linear and nonlinear circuit analysis and design. Efficient...

As current computer-aided design (CAD) tool and very large scale integration technology capabilities create a new market of reusable digital designs, the economic viability of this new core-based design paradigm is pending on the development of techniques for intellectual property protection. This work presents the first technique that leverages the unique characteristics of fieldprogrammable g...

Wave-pipelining is a method of high-performance circuit design which implements pipelining in logic without the use of intermediate latches or registers. The combination of high-performance integrated circuit (IC) technologies, pipelined architectures, and sophisticated computer-aided design (CAD) tools has converted wave-pipelining from a theoretical oddity into a realistic, although challengi...

Recent trends in the integration of process, device and circuit modeling tools and the current rapid emergence of UNIX® based computing environments of networked workstations and compute engines makes possible user-friendly, taskbased CAD systems for technology optimization, characterization and cell design. The paper discusses these trends and identifies opportunities to leverage Technology CA...

A CAD tool has been developed to specify 3-dimensional FPGA architectures and map RTL descriptions of circuits to these 3-D FPGAs. The CAD tool was created from the widely used VersatilePlace and Route (VPR) CAD tool for 2-D FPGAs. The tool performs timing-driven placement of logic blocks in the 3-dimensional grid of the FPGA using a two-stage Simulated Annealing (SA) process. The SA algorithm ...

Efficient simulation of quantum mechanical systems is an important application of quantum computing. We build a fault-tolerant, ion-trap-based architecture for the quantum simulation algorithm, using the quantum CAD flow developed at Berkeley. First, we develop a software that, given the description of a quantum simulation problem, generates the solution circuit and optimizes it by using a laye...

University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, offers a one-year course on Advanced CAD and VLSI design for post graduate students (DEA ASIME, DESS CISAN). This course starts with a general introduction to circuit and system architecture and a presentation of ALLIANCE[1], the educational CAD system developed by the ASIM team of the university. This first part lasts 4 weeks and aims to settle the b...