TY - GEN
T1 - Incremental power network analysis using backward random walks
AU - Boghrati, Baktash
AU - Sapatnekar, Sachin S
PY - 2012/4/26
Y1 - 2012/4/26
N2 - The process of power network analysis during VLSI chip design is inherently iterative. It is very common for the designer to make many small perturbations to an otherwise complete design, to enhance the design or fix design violations. Considering the size of the modern chips, updating the solution for the changed network can be a computationally intensive task. In this paper we propose an efficient and accurate incremental solver that utilizes the backward random walks to identify the region of influence of the perturbation. The solution of the network is updated for the significantly smaller region only. The proposed algorithm is capable of handling consecutive perturbations without any degradation. The experimental results show speedups of up to 13.7x as compared to a complete solution.
AB - The process of power network analysis during VLSI chip design is inherently iterative. It is very common for the designer to make many small perturbations to an otherwise complete design, to enhance the design or fix design violations. Considering the size of the modern chips, updating the solution for the changed network can be a computationally intensive task. In this paper we propose an efficient and accurate incremental solver that utilizes the backward random walks to identify the region of influence of the perturbation. The solution of the network is updated for the significantly smaller region only. The proposed algorithm is capable of handling consecutive perturbations without any degradation. The experimental results show speedups of up to 13.7x as compared to a complete solution.
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U2 - 10.1109/ASPDAC.2012.6164983
DO - 10.1109/ASPDAC.2012.6164983
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84859949212
SN - 9781467307727
T3 - Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC
SP - 41
EP - 46
BT - ASP-DAC 2012 - 17th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
T2 - 17th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2012
Y2 - 30 January 2012 through 2 February 2012
ER -