Circuit reliability is affected by various fabrication-time and run-time effects. Fabrication-induced process variation has significant impact on circuit performance and reliabilit...
Yinghai Lu, Li Shang, Hai Zhou, Hengliang Zhu, Fan...
Device optimization considering supply voltage Vdd and threshold voltage Vt tuning does not increase chip area but has a great impact on power and performance in the nanometer tec...
Lerong Cheng, Phoebe Wong, Fei Li, Yan Lin, Lei He
As Si CMOS devices are scaled down into the nanoscale regime, current computer architecture approaches are reaching their practical limits. Future nano-architectures will confront...
Kundan Nepal, R. Iris Bahar, Joseph L. Mundy, Will...
Substantial increase in leakage current and threshold voltage fluctuations are making design of robust wide fan-in dynamic gates a challenging task. Traditionally, a PMOS keeper t...
Hamed F. Dadgour, Rajiv V. Joshi, Kaustav Banerjee
Internet traffic is bursty and network servers are often overloaded with surprising events or abnormal client request patterns. This paper studies a load shedding mechanism called...