Designers of system on a chip (SOCs) use many design methodologies, flows, and tools to achieve timing closure. The current physical synthesis tools attack the problem of block-level timing ...

The use of hierarchical DFT methods is growing as design size and complexity stresses memory requirements and design schedules. Hierarchical DFT divides the design into smaller pieces, creates test ...

Fundamental limitations separate synthesis fromplace and route – linked by wire load models – in180-nm technology and 300-MHz designs. In thepast year,conventional synthesis,even with extensions such ...

The rapidly shrinking process geometry is a double-edged sword. It allows unprecedented integration of circuits. But it also produces leakier transistors, which is one of the main reasons behind the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Hierarchical structures, spanning multiple length scales from nano- to macroscales, are very common in nature; but only in recent years have they been systematically studied in ...

A research team of Professor Yan Chen from the Tianjin University presents a reconfigurable hierarchical metamaterial, establishes a linear relationship between its stiffness and the number of active ...

Researchers engineer a new class of microlattice materials with enhanced stiffness-to-density ratios and giant negative Poisson's ratios, ideal for lightweight applications. (Nanowerk Spotlight) ...