Instead of being held in Waikiki, Hawaii, this year's IEEE joint symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits will take place in cyberspace. Although the pandemic has put many aspects of our lives on hold, ...

Imagine a world where the chips powering your smartphones, computers, and even cars are designed and tested with unparalleled precision and speed. Welcome to the realm of Very Large Scale Integration ...

Routing algorithms in VLSI design form the backbone of interconnect synthesis, ensuring that circuit elements are connected efficiently while conforming to strict physical and timing constraints.

The trend of CMOS technology improvement continues to be driven by the need to integrate more functions within a given silicon area. In this paper, the authors describe Intel’s 45nm technology ...