An efficient low-power buffer insertion with time and area constraints

  • Authors:
  • A. Mahdoum;R. Benmadache;A. Chenouf;M. L. Berrandjia

  • Affiliations:
  • Division of Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies, Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées, Algiers, Algeria;Division of Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies, Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées, Algiers, Algeria;Division of Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies, Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées, Algiers, Algeria;Division of Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies, Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées, Algiers, Algeria

  • Venue:
  • ICC'10 Proceedings of the 14th WSEAS international conference on Circuits
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Technology scaling has resulted in interconnect delay increasing significantly. Buffer-insertion is a well-known technique to reduce wire delays of critical signal nets in a circuit. However, the power consumption of buffers has become a critical concern with the increase of the number of buffers. Thanks to a genetic-based algorithm, our work addresses the interconnect delay problem while meeting power and area constraints.