K. L. Shepard, “The challenge of high-performance, deep-submicron design in a turnkey ASIC environment” Proceedings of the 1998 International ASIC conference, pp. 183-186. (invited)

K. L. Shepard, “Design methodologies for noise in digital integrated circuits” Proceedings of the Design Automation Conference, 1998, pp. 94-99.

K. L. Shepard and V. Narayanan “Conquering noise in deep submicron digital ICs” IEEE Design and Test of Computers, January-March, 1998.