Atsushi KUROKAWA


A Non-Iterative Method for Calculating the Effective Capacitance of CMOS Gates with Interconnect Load Effect
Minglu JIANG  Zhangcai HUANG  Atsushi KUROKAWA  Qiang LI  Bin LIN  Yasuaki INOUE 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2011/05/01
Vol. E94-A  No. 5  pp. 1201-1209
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: VLSI Design Technology and CAD
Keyword: 
static timing analysisgate delayeffective capacitancenon-iterative
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Simple Analytical Formulas for Estimating IR-Drops in an Early Design Stage
Kazuyuki OOYA  Yuji TAKASHIMA  Atsushi KUROKAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2010/09/01
Vol. E93-A  No. 9  pp. 1585-1593
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: VLSI Design Technology and CAD
Keyword: 
IR-droppower-gridpower-ringdecoupling capacitanceresponse surface method
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Impact of Self-Heating in Wire Interconnection on Timing
Toshiki KANAMOTO  Takaaki OKUMURA  Katsuhiro FURUKAWA  Hiroshi TAKAFUJI  Atsushi KUROKAWA  Koutaro HACHIYA  Tsuyoshi SAKATA  Masakazu TANAKA  Hidenari NAKASHIMA  Hiroo MASUDA  Takashi SATO  Masanori HASHIMOTO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Publication Date: 2010/03/01
Vol. E93-C  No. 3  pp. 388-392
Type of Manuscript: BRIEF PAPER
Category: 
Keyword: 
interconnectdelay variationparasitic resistancethermaltemperatureself-heatSoC
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An Approach for Reducing Leakage Current Variation due to Manufacturing Variability
Tsuyoshi SAKATA  Takaaki OKUMURA  Atsushi KUROKAWA  Hidenari NAKASHIMA  Hiroo MASUDA  Takashi SATO  Masanori HASHIMOTO  Koutaro HACHIYA  Katsuhiro FURUKAWA  Masakazu TANAKA  Hiroshi TAKAFUJI  Toshiki KANAMOTO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2009/12/01
Vol. E92-A  No. 12  pp. 3016-3023
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: Device and Circuit Modeling and Analysis
Keyword: 
low powerleakagegate delay modelvariation
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Practical Redundant-Via Insertion Method Considering Manufacturing Variability and Reliability
Yuji TAKASHIMA  Kazuyuki OOYA  Atsushi KUROKAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2009/12/01
Vol. E92-A  No. 12  pp. 2962-2970
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: Physical Level Desing
Keyword: 
redundant viamanufacturing variabilityreliability
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Accurate Method for Calculating the Effective Capacitance with RC Loads Based on the Thevenin Model
Minglu JIANG  Zhangcai HUANG  Atsushi KUROKAWA  Shuai FANG  Yasuaki INOUE 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2009/10/01
Vol. E92-A  No. 10  pp. 2531-2539
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications)
Category: Nonlinear Problems
Keyword: 
static timing analysisgate delayeffective capacitanceThevenin model
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Improvement in Computational Accuracy of Output Transition Time Variation Considering Threshold Voltage Variations
Takaaki OKUMURA  Atsushi KUROKAWA  Hiroo MASUDA  Toshiki KANAMOTO  Masanori HASHIMOTO  Hiroshi TAKAFUJI  Hidenari NAKASHIMA  Nobuto ONO  Tsuyoshi SAKATA  Takashi SATO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2009/04/01
Vol. E92-A  No. 4  pp. 990-997
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advanced Technologies Emerging Mainly from the 21st Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa)
Category: 
Keyword: 
SSTAoutputtransition timegate delay modelprocess variation
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Prevention in a Chip of EMI Noise Caused by X'tal Oscillator
Atsushi KUROKAWA  Hiroshi FUJITA  Tetsuya IBE 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2008/04/01
Vol. E91-A  No. 4  pp. 1077-1083
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Selected Papers from the 20th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa)
Category: 
Keyword: 
EMIcrystal oscillatornoisedecoupling capacitor
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Impact of Intrinsic Parasitic Extraction Errors on Timing and Noise Estimation
Toshiki KANAMOTO  Shigekiyo AKUTSU  Tamiyo NAKABAYASHI  Takahiro ICHINOMIYA  Koutaro HACHIYA  Atsushi KUROKAWA  Hiroshi ISHIKAWA  Sakae MUROMOTO  Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI  Masanori HASHIMOTO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2006/12/01
Vol. E89-A  No. 12  pp. 3666-3670
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: Interconnect
Keyword: 
interconnectdelay variationparasitic capacitanceSoC
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Determination of Interconnect Structural Parameters for Best- and Worst-Case Delays
Atsushi KUROKAWA  Hiroo MASUDA  Junko FUJII  Toshinori INOSHITA  Akira KASEBE  Zhangcai HUANG  Yasuaki INOUE 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2006/04/01
Vol. E89-A  No. 4  pp. 856-864
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Selected Papers from the 18th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa)
Category: 
Keyword: 
interconnectworst-case delaystatic timing analysisprocess variationcapacitance extraction
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Modeling the Influence of Input-to-Output Coupling Capacitance on CMOS Inverter Delay
Zhangcai HUANG  Atsushi KUROKAWA  Yun YANG  Hong YU  Yasuaki INOUE 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2006/04/01
Vol. E89-A  No. 4  pp. 840-846
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Selected Papers from the 18th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa)
Category: 
Keyword: 
CMOS inverterovershooting effectdeep submicrontiming analysis
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Formula-Based Method for Capacitance Extraction of Interconnects with Dummy Fills
Atsushi KUROKAWA  Akira KASEBE  Toshiki KANAMOTO  Yun YANG  Zhangcai HUANG  Yasuaki INOUE  Hiroo MASUDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2006/04/01
Vol. E89-A  No. 4  pp. 847-855
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Selected Papers from the 18th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa)
Category: 
Keyword: 
dummy fillcapacitance extractioncapacitance formulainterconnect
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Efficient Dummy Filling Methods to Reduce Interconnect Capacitance and Number of Dummy Metal Fills
Atsushi KUROKAWA  Toshiki KANAMOTO  Tetsuya IBE  Akira KASEBE  Wei Fong CHANG   Tetsuro KAGE  Yasuaki INOUE  Hiroo MASUDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2005/12/01
Vol. E88-A  No. 12  pp. 3471-3478
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: Interconnect
Keyword: 
dummy metaldummy fillinterconnect capacitanceCMP
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Efficient Large Scale Integration Power/Ground Network Optimization Based on Grid Genetic Algorithm
Yun YANG  Atsushi KUROKAWA  Yasuaki INOUE  Wenqing ZHAO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2005/12/01
Vol. E88-A  No. 12  pp. 3412-3420
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: Power/Ground Network
Keyword: 
SLP algorithmGGA methodP/G network optimizationglobal optimum
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Modeling the Effective Capacitance of Interconnect Loads for Predicting CMOS Gate Slew
Zhangcai HUANG  Atsushi KUROKAWA  Jun PAN  Yasuaki INOUE 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2005/12/01
Vol. E88-A  No. 12  pp. 3367-3374
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: Prediction and Analysis
Keyword: 
static timing analysisgate slewCMOS invertereffective capacitanceinterconnect loads
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Second-Order Polynomial Expressions for On-Chip Interconnect Capacitance
Atsushi KUROKAWA  Masanori HASHIMOTO  Akira KASEBE  Zhangcai HUANG  Yun YANG  Yasuaki INOUE  Ryosuke INAGAKI  Hiroo MASUDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2005/12/01
Vol. E88-A  No. 12  pp. 3453-3462
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: Interconnect
Keyword: 
capacitance formulacapacitance calculationcapacitance extractioninterconnect capacitance
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A Practical Approach for Efficiently Extracting Interconnect Capacitances with Floating Dummy Fills
Atsushi KUROKAWA  Toshiki KANAMOTO  Akira KASEBE  Yasuaki INOUE  Hiroo MASUDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2005/11/01
Vol. E88-A  No. 11  pp. 3180-3187
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: VLSI Design Technology and CAD
Keyword: 
dummy filldummy metalcapacitance extractioninterconnect capacitance
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A Novel Model for Computing the Effective Capacitance of CMOS Gates with Interconnect Loads
Zhangcai HUANG  Atsushi KUROKAWA  Yasuaki INOUE  Junfa MAO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2005/10/01
Vol. E88-A  No. 10  pp. 2562-2569
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications)
Category: 
Keyword: 
static timing analysisgate delayCMOS invertereffective capacitanceinterconnect loads
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Approximation Formula Approach for the Efficient Extraction of On-Chip Mutual Inductances
Atsushi KUROKAWA  Takashi SATO  Hiroo MASUDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2003/12/01
Vol. E86-A  No. 12  pp. 2933-2941
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: Parasitics and Noise
Keyword: 
on-chip inductanceparasitic extractionVLSI interconnectsinductance extraction
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Fast On-Chip Inductance Extraction of VLSI Including Angled Interconnects
Atsushi KUROKAWA  Kotaro HACHIYA  Takashi SATO  Kazuya TOKUMASU  Hiroo MASUDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2003/04/01
Vol. E86-A  No. 4  pp. 841-845
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section of Selected Papers from the 15th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa)
Category: 
Keyword: 
inductanceparasitic extractionVLSI interconnectgeometric mean distanceskin effect
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