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In this chapter, we presented the preliminaries of modern IC design, including CMOS transistor, static and dynamic configurations, delay modeling of gate and wire, various design styles and timing-driven design flow. New DSM challenges were discussed also. The strategies proposed in Section 2.5 to handle the DSM problems are the main topic in the following chapters.
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(2004). Preliminaries. In: Regular Fabrics in Deep Sub-Micron Integrated-Circuit Design. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8041-7_2
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