Abstract— The impact of process variations increases as technology scales to nanometer region. Under large process variations, the path and arc/node criticality [18] provide effe...
Chips manufactured in 90 nm technology have shown large parametric variations, and a worsening trend is predicted. These parametric variations make circuit optimization difficult ...
Jinjun Xiong, Vladimir Zolotov, Natesan Venkateswa...
— Criticality and yield gradients are two crucial diagnostic metrics obtained from Statistical Static Timing Analysis (SSTA). They provide valuable information to guide timing op...
Jinjun Xiong, Vladimir Zolotov, Chandu Visweswaria...
Abstract-- In this paper we present the Statistical Retimingbased Timing Analysis (SRTA) algorithm. The goal is to compute the timing slack distribution for the nodes in the timing...
Variability of process parameters makes prediction of digital circuit timing characteristics an important and challenging problem in modern chip design. Recently, statistical stat...
Hongliang Chang, Vladimir Zolotov, Sambasivan Nara...