With increasing aggregate off-chip bandwidths exceeding terabits/second (Tb/s), the power dissipation is a serious design consideration. Additionally, design of I/O links is const...
Hamid Hatamkhani, Frank Lambrecht, Vladimir Stojan...
Subthreshold circuit designs have been demonstrated to be a successful alternative when ultra-low power consumption is paramount. However, the characteristics of MOS transistors i...
John Keane, Hanyong Eom, Tae-Hyoung Kim, Sachin S....
FinFET devices promise to replace traditional MOSFETs because of superior ability in controlling leakage and minimizing short channel effects while delivering a strong drive curre...
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...
An approach to robust system level mixed signal design is presented based on analog platforms. The bottom-up characterization phase of platform components provides accurate perfor...
Fernando De Bernardinis, Pierluigi Nuzzo, Alberto ...