The rapidly increasing complexity and quality requirements of integrated circuit design can only be addressed effectively by a design system architecture that supports very efficient, high-quality sharing of IC design data. The OpenAccess Coalition is delivering an industry standard Application Programming Interface (API) and Information Model (IM) that provides access to a shared database as a...

Bell’s Law predicts continual reductions in the size of computing systems. We investigate the status of the next paradigm shift that will usher in ubiquitous computing – submm sensor nodes. However, this form factor remains beyond the capabilities of modern integrated circuit design techniques due to battery size. This paper describes new ultra-low power circuit techniques applied to digital pr...

A new technique that uses the transistor itself as a computing element has been developed for simulating transistors on the analog computer. The method is called the separation technique since it separates the highand low-frequency behavior of the simulated transistor. The high-frequency behavior of the transistor is time scaled by a factor (typically one million) suitable for computer simulati...

Key blocker requirements of software defined radio receivers are identified from first principles. Three challenges are derived from these requirements, the need for passive filter banks or tunable passive filters, a very highly linear RF front-end and a high performance analog-todigital converter. Each of these challenges is analyzed regarding possible solutions in the context of state-of-the ...

Bell’s Law predicts continual reductions in the size of computing systems. We investigate the status of the next paradigm shift that will usher in ubiquitous computing – submm3 sensor nodes. However, this form factor remains beyond the capabilities of modern integrated circuit design techniques due to battery size. This paper describes new ultra-low power circuit techniques applied to digital p...

An important part of the integrated circuit design process is the channel routing stage, which determines how to interconnect components that are arranged in sets of rows. The channel routing problem has been shown to be NP-complete, thus this problem is often solved using genetic algorithms. The traditional objective for most channel routers is to minimize total area required to complete routi...

Integrated circuit design is entering an era of truly nanoscale transistors with minimum device geometries now at 32nm and soon to be at 25nm. While actual transistor and logic gate sizes are many times the minimum lengths possible, logic elements are becoming increasingly small and more closely packed together. There is now an increasing possibility of getting coupling errors where nearby logi...

This paper presents the evaluation and fine-tuning of different values of genetic operators in the process of optimizing the designs of the integrated circuits. Due to the increasing usage of the evolutionary optimization in the area of the integrated circuit design, there is a need to find a proper combination of genetic operators parameters’ value. We investigated the interdependence of vario...

Custom design of integrated circuits is required for the development of digital standard-cell and bit-slice libraries, analog circuits, and other specialized circuits that are not commercially available. Teaching students the design and verification flow at this physical level is valuable in that it provides the understanding and skills they will need to perform these functions in their subsequ...

Interconnect has become a primary bottleneck in the integrated circuit design process. As CMOS technology is scaled, the design requirements of delay, power, bandwidth, and noise due to the on-chip interconnects have become increasingly stringent. New design challenges are continuously emerging, such as delay uncertainty induced by process and environmental variations. It has become increasingl...