Conference Program    Technical Session

WEDNESDAY, July 26, 2006, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Room: 305
TOPIC AREA:  PHYSICAL DESIGN


   SESSION 18
  Buffer Insertion
  Chair: Charles J. Alpert - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
  Organizers: Dirk Stroobandt, Louis Scheffer

  Buffer insertion is important for coping with timing constraints but the sheer number of buffers needed poses problems. The first paper deals with the large circuit sizes in an efficient way. The other two papers acknowledge that buffer insertion should also take slew constraints into account.

  18.1   Buffer Insertion in Large Circuits with Constructive Solution Search Techniques
  Speaker(s): Mandar Waghmode - Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
  Author(s): Mandar Waghmode - Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
Zhuo Li - Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
Weiping Shi - Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
  18.2  Low-Power Repeater Insertion with Both Delay and Slew Rate Constraints
  Speaker(s): Xun Liu - North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
  Author(s): Yuantao Peng - North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
Xun Liu - North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
  18.3  Fast Algorithms For Slew Constrained Minimum Cost Buffering
  Speaker(s): Shiyan Hu - Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
  Author(s): Shiyan Hu - Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
Charles J. Alpert - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
Jiang Hu - Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
Shrirang Karandikar - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
Zhuo Li - Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
Weiping Shi - Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
C. N. Sze - IBM Corp., Austin, TX