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Towards synthetic benchmark circuits for evaluating timing-driven CAD tools

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International Symposium on Physical Design archive
Proceedings of the 1999 international symposium on Physical design table of contents

Monterey, California, United States

Pages: 60 - 66

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-089-9

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Dirk Stroobandt	University of Ghent, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Belgium
Peter Verplaetse	University of Ghent, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Belgium
Jan van Campenhout	University of Ghent, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Belgium

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SIGDA: ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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