Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Room: 210CD

   SESSION 8
  Power Grid Analysis and Optimization
  Chair: Sani Nassif - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
  Organizers: Abhijit Dharchoudhury, Anirudh Devgan

  CMOS scaling is leading to a reduction in the power supply voltage and a simultaneous increase in the on-chip power density. This trend mandates increased focus on power grid signal integrity. This session deals with exciting new approaches in the analysis and optimization of on-chip power networks. The first paper presents a technique for static power drop estimation, followed by two papers on power grid analysis using algebraic multi-grid techniques. Fourth paper addresses impact of leakage on the supply integrity. The last paper presents techniques for optimizing the power distribution network.

  8.1   Random Walks in a Supply Network
  Speaker(s): Haifeng Qian - Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  Author(s): Haifeng Qian - Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Sani R. Nassif - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
Sachin S. Sapatnekar - Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  8.2A Static Pattern-Independent Technique for Power Grid Voltage Integrity Verification
  Speaker(s): Dionysios Kouroussis - Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  Author(s): Dionysios Kouroussis - Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Farid N. Najm - Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  8.3sPower Network Analysis Using an Adaptive Algebraic Multigird Approach
  Speaker(s): Zhengyong Zhu - Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA
  Author(s): Zhengyong Zhu - Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Bo Yao - Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Chung-Kuan Cheng - Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA
  8.4sPower Grid Reduction Based on Algebraic Multigrid Principles
  Speaker(s): Haihua Su - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
  Author(s): Haihua Su - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
Emrah Acar - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
Sani R. Nassif - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
  8.5On-chip Power Supply Network Optimization using Multigrid-based Technique
  Speaker(s): Kai Wang - Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  Author(s): Kai Wang - Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska - Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA