Volume 20, Number 1, January 2001
Maria del Mar Hershenson, Stephen P. Boyd, Thomas H. Lee: Optimal design of a CMOS op-amp via geometric programming. 1-21
Mayukh Bhattacharya, Pinaki Mazumder: Augmentation of SPICE for simulation of circuits containingresonant tunneling diodes. 39-50
Rolf Drechsler, Wolfgang Günther, Fabio Somenzi: Using lower bounds during dynamic BDD minimization. 51-57
Michael W. Beattie, Byron Krauter, Lale Alatan, Lawrence T. Pileggi: Equipotential shells for efficient inductance extraction. 70-79
Mohamed Hafed, Mourad Oulmane, Nicholas C. Rumin: Delay and current estimation in a CMOS inverter with an RC load. 80-89
Charles J. Alpert, Anirudh Devgan, John P. Fishburn, Stephen T. Quay: Interconnect synthesis without wire tapering. 90-104
Tom J. Smy, David J. Walkey, Steven K. Dew: A 3D thermal simulation tool for integrated devices-Atar. 105-115
André Ivanov, Sumbal Rafiq, Michel Renovell, Florence Azaïs, Yves Bertrand: On the detectability of CMOS floating gate transistor faults. 116-128
Wendy Belluomini, Chris J. Myers, H. Peter Hofstee: Timed circuit verification using TEL structures. 129-146
Shih-Chieh Chang, Jiann-Chyi Rau: A timing-driven pseudoexhaustive testing for VLSI circuits. 147-158
Kamal S. Khouri, Niraj K. Jha: Clock selection for performance optimization of control-flowintensive behaviors. 158-165
Yun-Che Wen, Kuen-Jong Lee: Analysis and generation of control and observation structures foranalog circuits. 165-171
Yi-Jong Yeh, Sy-Yen Kuo, Jing-Yang Jou: Converter-free multiple-voltage scaling techniques for low-powerCMOS digital design. 172-176
Volume 20, Number 2, February 2001
Praveen K. Murthy, Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya: Shared buffer implementations of signal processing systems usinglifetime analysis techniques. 177-198
Sanghun Park, Kiyoung Choi: Performance-driven high-level synthesis with bit-level chaining andclock selection. 199-212
Luc Séméria, Giovanni De Micheli: Resolution, optimization, and encoding of pointer variables for thebehavioral synthesis from C. 213-233
Vigyan Singhal, Carl Pixley, Adnan Aziz, Robert K. Brayton: Theory of safe replacements for sequential circuits. 249-265
Shih-Chieh Chang, Ching-Hwa Cheng, Wen-Ben Jone, Shin-De Lee, Jinn-Shyan Wang: Charge-sharing alleviation and detection for CMOS domino circuits. 266-280
Pei-Ning Guo, Toshihiko Takahashi, Chung-Kuan Cheng, Takeshi Yoshimura: Floorplanning using a tree representation. 281-289
Hyungwon Kim, John P. Hayes: Realization-independent ATPG for designs with unimplemented blocks. 290-306
Khaled Saab, Naim Ben Hamida, Bozena Kaminska: Closing the gap between analog and digital testing. 307-314
Hakan Yalcin, Mohammad Mortazavi, Robert Palermo, Cyrus Bamji, Karem A. Sakallah, John P. Hayes: Fast and accurate timing characterization using functionalinformation. 315-331
Adnan Aziz, James H. Kukula, Thomas R. Shiple, Jun Yuan: Efficient control state-space search. 332-336
Irith Pomeranz, Sudhakar M. Reddy: Vector replacement to improve static-test compaction forsynchronous sequential circuits. 336-342
Shanq-Jang Ruan, Rung-Ji Shang, Feipei Lai, Kun-Lin Tsai: A bipartition-codec architecture to reduce power in pipelinedcircuits. 343-348
Volume 20, Number 3, March 2001
Ramesh Karri: Guest editor's introduction to special section on high-level design validation and test. 353-354
Anshuman Chandra, Krishnendu Chakrabarty: System-on-a-chip test-data compression and decompressionarchitectures based on Golomb codes. 355-368
Chung-Yang Huang, Kwang-Ting Cheng: Using word-level ATPG and modular arithmetic constraint-solvingtechniques for assertion property checking. 381-391
Farinaz Koushanfar, Darko Kirovski, Inki Hong, Miodrag Potkonjak, Marios C. Papaefthymiou: Symbolic debugging of embedded hardware and software. 392-401
Indradeep Ghosh, Masahiro Fujita: Automatic test pattern generation for functional register-transferlevel circuits using assignment decision diagrams. 402-415
Angela Krstic, Yi-Min Jiang, Kwang-Ting Cheng: Pattern generation for delay testing and dynamic timing analysisconsidering power-supply noise effects. 416-425
Srivaths Ravi, Ganesh Lakshminarayana, Niraj K. Jha: Testing of core-based systems-on-a-chip. 426-439
Mukund Sivaraman, Andrzej J. Strojwas: Path delay fault diagnosis and coverage-a metric and an estimationtechnique. 440-457
Clayton B. McDonald, Randal E. Bryant: CMOS circuit verification with symbolic switch-level timingsimulation. 458-474
Volume 20, Number 4, April 2001
Siddharth Rele, Vipin Jain, Santosh Pande, J. Ramanujam: Compact and efficient code generation through program restructuringon limited memory embedded DSPs. 477-494
Yutao Ma, Litian Liu, Lilin Tian, Zhiping Yu, Zhijian Li: Analytical charge-control and I-V model for submicrometer anddeep-submicrometer MOSFETs fully comprising quantum mechanical effects. 495-502
Prashant Saxena, C. L. Liu: Optimization of the maximum delay of global interconnects duringlayer assignment. 503-515
Lixin Su, Wray L. Buntine, A. Richard Newton, Bradley S. Peters: Learning as applied to stochastic optimization for standard-cellplacement. 516-527

Charles J. Alpert, Gopal Gandham, Jiang Hu, José Luis Neves, Stephen T. Quay, Sachin S. Sapatnekar: Steiner tree optimization for buffers, blockages, and bays. 556-562
Volume 20, Number 5, May 2001
Charles J. Alpert, Anirudh Devgan, Chandramouli V. Kashyap: RC delay metrics for performance optimization. 571-582
Evanthia Papadopoulou: Critical area computation for missing material defects in VLSIcircuits. 583-597
Lauren Hui Chen, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska: Aggressor alignment for worst-case crosstalk noise. 612-621
Christoph Albrecht: Global routing by new approximation algorithms for multicommodityflow. 622-632
Andrew B. Kahng, Stefanus Mantik, Dirk Stroobandt: Toward accurate models of achievable routing. 648-659
Probir Sarkar, Cheng-Kok Koh: Routability-driven repeater block planning for interconnect-centricfloorplanning. 660-671
Rony Kay, Rob A. Rutenbar: Wire packing - a strong formulation of crosstalk-aware chip-leveltrack/layer assignment with an efficient integer programming solution. 672-679
Yu-Yen Mo, Chris C. N. Chu: Hybrid dynamic/quadratic programming algorithm for interconnecttree optimization. 680-686
Evangeline F. Y. Young, Chris C. N. Chu, W. S. Luk, Y. C. Wong: Handling soft modules in general nonslicing floorplan usingLagrangian relaxation. 687-692
Volume 20, Number 6, June 2001
Amir H. Farrahi, Chunhong Chen, Ankur Srivastava, Gustavo E. Téllez, Majid Sarrafzadeh: Activity-driven clock design. 705-714
Amr G. Wassal, M. Anwar Hasan: Low-power system-level design of VLSI packet switching fabrics. 723-738
Jason Cong, David Zhigang Pan: Interconnect performance estimation models for design planning. 739-752
Peter Meuris, Wim Schoenmaker, Wim Magnus: Strategy for electromagnetic interconnect modeling. 753-762
Junlin Zhou, Mengzhang Cheng, Leonard Forbes: SPICE models for flicker noise in p-MOSFETs in the saturationregion. 763-767
Kanishka Lahiri, Anand Raghunathan, Sujit Dey: System-level performance analysis for designing on-chipcommunication architectures. 768-783
Yao-Wen Chang, Jai-Ming Lin, Martin D. F. Wong: Matching-based algorithm for FPGA channel segmentation design. 784-791
Irith Pomeranz, Sudhakar M. Reddy: On diagnosis and diagnostic test generation for pattern-dependenttransition faults. 791-800
Evangeline F. Y. Young, Martin D. F. Wong, Hannah Honghua Yang: On extending slicing floorplan to handle L/T-shaped modules andabutment constraints. 800-807
Volume 20, Number 7, July 2001
C.-J. Richard Shi, Sheldon X.-D. Tan: Compact representation and efficient generation of s-expandedsymbolic network functions for computer-aided analog circuit design. 813-827
Zaher Baidas, Andrew D. Brown, Alan Christopher Williams: Floating-point behavioral synthesis. 828-839
Tajana Simunic, Luca Benini, Peter W. Glynn, Giovanni De Micheli: Event-driven power management. 840-857
Kyu-Il Lee, Jinsoo Kim, Young June Park, Hong Shick Min: Simple frequency-domain analysis of MOSFET-includingnonquasi-static effect. 867-876
Phillip Restle, Albert E. Ruehli, Steven G. Walker, George Papadopoulos: Full-wave PEEC time-domain method for the modeling of on-chipinterconnects. 877-886
Kenneth L. Shepard, Dae-Jin Kim: Body-voltage estimation in digital PD-SOI circuits and itsapplication to static timing analysis. 888-901
Ruiqi Tian, Martin D. F. Wong, Robert Boone: Model-based dummy feature placement for oxide chemical-mechanicalpolishing manufacturability. 902-910
Tsung-Chu Huang, Kuen-Jong Lee: Reduction of power consumption in scan-based circuits during testapplication by an input control technique. 911-917
Volume 20, Number 8, August 2001
Ki-Il Kum, Wonyong Sung: Combined word-length optimization and high-level synthesis ofdigital signal processing systems. 921-930
Qing Wu, Qinru Qiu, Massoud Pedram: Estimation of peak power dissipation in VLSI circuits using thelimiting distributions of extreme order statistics. 942-956
Angelo Brambilla, Paolo Maffezzoni: Statistical method for the analysis of interconnects delay insubmicrometer layouts. 957-966
Lih-Yang Wang, Yen-Tai Lai: Graph-theory-based simplex algorithm for VLSI layout spacingproblems with multiple variable constraints. 967-979
Irith Pomeranz, Y. Zonan: Testing of scan circuits containing nonisolated random-logic legacycores. 980-993
Farzan Fallah, Srinivas Devadas, Kurt Keutzer: Functional vector generation for HDL models using linearprogramming and Boolean satisfiability. 994-1002
Farzan Fallah, Srinivas Devadas, Kurt Keutzer: OCCOM-efficient computation of observability-based code coveragemetrics for functional verification. 1003-1015
Harry Hsieh, Felice Balarin, Luciano Lavagno, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli: Synchronous approach to the functional equivalence of embeddedsystem implementations. 1016-1033
Volume 20, Number 9, September 2001
Geert Van der Plas, Geert Debyser, Francky Leyn, Koen Lampaert, Jan Vandenbussche, Georges G. E. Gielen, Willy M. C. Sansen, Petar Veselinovic, Domine Leenaerts: AMGIE-A synthesis environment for CMOS analog integrated circuits. 1037-1058
Luca P. Carloni, Kenneth L. McMillan, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli: Theory of latency-insensitive design. 1059-1076
Jason Cong, Yean-Yow Hwang: Boolean matching for LUT-based logic blocks with applications toarchitecture evaluation and technology mapping. 1077-1090
Arlindo L. Oliveira: Techniques for the creation of digital watermarks in sequentialcircuit designs. 1101-1117
Luca Benini, Giovanni De Micheli, Antonio Lioy, Enrico Macii, Giuseppe Odasso, Massimo Poncino: Synthesis of power-managed sequential components based oncomputational kernel extraction. 1118-1131
Rajesh Pendurkar, Abhijit Chatterjee, Yervant Zorian: Switching activity generation with automated BIST synthesis forperformance testing of interconnects. 1143-1158
Jason Cong, Lei He, Cheng-Kok Koh, David Zhigang Pan: Interconnect sizing and spacing with consideration of couplingcapacitance. 1164-1169
Radomir S. Stankovic, Tsutomu Sasao: A discussion on the history of research in arithmetic andReed-Muller expressions. 1177-1179
Volume 20, Number 10, October 2001
Wim F. J. Verhaegh, Emile H. L. Aarts, Paul C. N. van Gorp, Paul E. R. Lippens: A two-stage solution approach to multidimensional periodicscheduling. 1185-1199
Qinru Qiu, Q. Qu, Massoud Pedram: Stochastic modeling of a power-managed system-construction andoptimization. 1200-1217
Zilu Wu, Yumin Gao, Jinsheng Luo, Xun Hou, Guofu Chen: Application of BEM to high-voltage junction termination. 1218-1225
Pankaj Pant, Yuan-Chieh Hsu, Sandeep K. Gupta, Abhijit Chatterjee: Path delay fault diagnosis in combinational circuits with implicitfault enumeration. 1226-1235
Andrew B. Kahng, John Lach, William H. Mangione-Smith, Stefanus Mantik, Igor L. Markov, Miodrag Potkonjak, Paul Tucker, Huijuan Wang, Gregory Wolfe: Constraint-based watermarking techniques for design IP protection. 1236-1252
John Lach, William H. Mangione-Smith, Miodrag Potkonjak: Fingerprinting techniques for field-programmable gate arrayintellectual property protection. 1253-1261
Irith Pomeranz, Sudhakar M. Reddy: Forward-looking fault simulation for improved static compaction. 1262-1265
Guang-Ming Wu, Jai-Ming Lin, Yao-Wen Chang: Generic ILP-based approaches for time-multiplexed FPGA partitioning. 1266-1274
Volume 20, Number 11, November 2001
Peter Marwedel: Guest editorial. 1281-1282
Andrea Acquaviva, Luca Benini, Bruno Riccò: Software-controlled processor speed setting for low-power streamingmultimedia. 1283-1292
Lovic Gauthier, Sungjoo Yoo, Ahmed Amine Jerraya: Automatic generation and targeting of application-specificoperating systems and embedded systems software. 1293-1301
Peter Petrov, Alex Orailoglu: Performance and power effectiveness in embedded processors customizable partitioned caches. 1309-1318
Subramanian Rajagopalan, Sreeranga P. Rajan, Sharad Malik, Sandro Rigo, Guido Araujo, Koichiro Takayama: A retargetable VLIW compiler framework for DSPs withinstruction-level parallelism. 1319-1328
Lars Wehmeyer, Manoj Kumar Jain, Stefan Steinke, Peter Marwedel, M. Balakrishnan: Analysis of the influence of register file size on energyconsumption, code size, and execution time. 1329-1337
Andreas Hoffmann, Tim Kogel, Achim Nohl, Gunnar Braun, Oliver Schliebusch, Oliver Wahlen, Andreas Wieferink, Heinrich Meyr: A novel methodology for the design of application-specificinstruction-set processors (ASIPs) using a machine description language. 1338-1354
Scott A. Mahlke, Rajiv A. Ravindran, Michael S. Schlansker, Robert Schreiber, Timothy Sherwood: Bitwidth cognizant architecture synthesis of custom hardwareaccelerators. 1355-1371
Volume 20, Number 12, December 2001
Roberto Cordone, Fabrizio Ferrandi, Donatella Sciuto, Roberto Wolfler Calvo: An efficient heuristic approach to solve the unate covering problem. 1377-1388
Giorgio Casinovi: Effect of the switching order on power dissipation inswitched-capacitor circuits. 1389-1397
Johannes Tausch, Junfeng Wang, Jacob K. White: Improved integral formulations for fast 3-D method-of-momentssolvers. 1398-1405
Xiaoping Tang, Ruiqi Tian, Martin D. F. Wong: Fast evaluation of sequence pair in block placement by longestcommon subsequence computation. 1406-1413
Srivaths Ravi, Indradeep Ghosh, Vamsi Boppana, Niraj K. Jha: Fault-diagnosis-based technique for establishing RTL and gate-levelcorrespondences. 1414-1425
Ramesh C. Tekumalla, Premachandran R. Menon: Identification of primitive faults in combinational and sequentialcircuits. 1426-1442
Yirng-An Chen, Randal E. Bryant: An efficient graph representation for arithmetic circuitverification. 1443-1454
Jason Cong, Cheng-Kok Koh, Patrick H. Madden: Interconnect layout optimization under higher order RLC model forMCM designs. 1455-1463
Jie Ding, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Richard B. Fair: Scheduling of microfluidic operations for reconfigurabletwo-dimensional electrowetting arrays. 1463-1468
Peeter Ellervee, Miguel Miranda, Francky Catthoor, Ahmed Hemani: System-level data-format exploration for dynamically allocated datastructures. 1469-1472
Hüseyin Özkaramanli: A comparison of strong and weak distributed transverse couplingbetween VLSI interconnects. 1472-1478
Wim F. J. Verhaegh, Emile H. L. Aarts, Paul C. N. van Gorp, Paul E. R. Lippens: Correction to "a two-stage solution approach to multidimensional periodic scheduling". 1479-1479



