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Record W2101029991 · doi:10.1109/tcad.2005.860953

Voltage-Aware Static Timing Analysis

2006· article· en· W2101029991 on OpenAlexaff
D. Kouroussis, Rubil Ahmadi, Farid N. Najm

Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicLow-power high-performance VLSI design
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStatic timing analysisVoltageComputer sciencePath (computing)Network analysisCritical path methodProcess (computing)Power (physics)Benchmark (surveying)Node (physics)Electronic circuitGridElectronic engineeringElectrical engineeringEngineeringMathematicsEmbedded system

Abstract

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Static timing analysis (STA) techniques allow a designer to check the timing of a circuit at different process corners, which typically include corner values of the supply voltages as well. Traditionally, however, this analysis only considers cases where the supplies are either all low or all high. As will be demonstrated, this may not yield the true maximum delay of a circuit because it neglects the possible mismatch between the supplies of successive gates on a path. A new methodology for timing analysis is proposed, where, in a first step, the critical paths of a circuit are identified under an assumption that all the supply nodes are independent of one another, thus allowing for mismatch between the supplies. Then, given these critical paths, the authors incorporate into the analysis the relationships between the supply node voltages by considering the power grid that they are tied to, and refine the worst case time delay values on a per-critical-path basis. This refinement is posed as a sequence of optimization problems where the operation of the circuit is abstracted in terms of current constraints. The authors present their technique and report on the implementation results using benchmark circuits tied to a number of test-case power grids

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.023

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.207
Teacher spread0.187 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2006
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