Floorplanning is an essential design step for hierarchical building module design methodology. Floorplanning provides early feedback that evaluates architectural decisions, estimates chip area, estimates delay and congestion caused by wiring. As technology advances, design complexity is increasing and the circuit size is getting larger. To cope with the increasing design complexity, hierarchica...

The common consideration on economic model is that there is knowledge about the risk of occurrence of an assignable cause and the various cost parameters that does not always adequately describe what happens in practice. Hence, there is a need for more realistic assumptions to be incorporated. In order to reduce cost penalties for not knowing the true values of some parameters, this paper aims ...

The present article concentrates on the dogleg-free Manhattan model where horizontal and vertical wire segments are positioned on different sides of the board and each net (wire) has at most one horizontal segment. While the minimum width can be found in linear time in the single row routing, apparently there was no efficient algorithm to find the minimum wire length. We show that there is no h...

We engineer a well-known optimization technique namely Tabu Search (TS) [1] for the performance and low power driven VLSI standard cell placement problem [2], [3]. The above problem is of multiobjective nature since three possibly conflicting objectives are considered to be optimized subject to the constraint of layout width. These objectives are power dissipation, timing performance, and inter...

Wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) is a method to cut conductive materials with a thin electrode that follows a programmed path. The electrode is a thin wire. Typical diameters range from .004" - .012" (.10mm - .30mm) although smaller and larger diameters are available. WEDM is a thermal machining process capable of accurately machining parts with varying hardness or complex shapes. WED...

Wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) is a method to cut conductive materials with a thin electrode that follows a programmed path. The electrode is a thin wire. Typical diameters range from .004" - .012" (.10mm - .30mm) although smaller and larger diameters are available. WEDM is a thermal machining process capable of accurately machining parts with varying hardness or complex shapes. WED...

A new class of LC-resonators for micro-magnetic sensor device was invented and fabricated by means of micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) technique. The micro-LC-resonator consists of a solenoidal micro-inductor with a bundle of soft magnetic micro-wire cores and a capacitor connected in parallel to the micro-inductor. The core magnetic material is a tiny glass-coated Co83.2B3.3Si5.9Mn7.6 mic...