The performance advantages in parallel ring-based VCOs are explored. When the number of VCOs is doubled, the parallel VCOs enhance phase noise by 3dB, and the within-chip process-...
Thermal effects are becoming increasingly important during integrated circuit design. Thermal characteristics influence reliability, power consumption, cooling costs, and performan...
A powerful combinational path sensitization engine is required for the efficient implementation of tools for test pattern generation, timing analysis, and delay fault testing. Path...
Router microarchitecture plays a central role in the performance of an on-chip network (NoC). Buffers are needed in routers to house incoming flits which cannot be immediately forw...
Rohit Sunkam Ramanujam, Vassos Soteriou, Bill Lin,...
Due to high levels of integration and complexity, the design of multi-core SoCs has become increasingly challenging. In particular, energy consumption and distributing a single gl...