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ICCD
2004
IEEE
138views Hardware» more  ICCD 2004»
14 years 4 months ago
A Novel Low-Power Scan Design Technique Using Supply Gating
— Reduction in test power is important to improve battery life in portable devices employing periodic self-test, to increase reliability of testing and to reduce test-cost. In sc...
Swarup Bhunia, Hamid Mahmoodi-Meimand, Saibal Mukh...
DAC
1990
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Symbolic Simulation - Techniques and Applications
Symbolic simulation involves evaluating circuit behavior using special symbolic values to encode a range of circuit operating conditions. In one simulation run, a symbolic simulat...
Randal E. Bryant
ISPD
2005
ACM
188views Hardware» more  ISPD 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
A semi-persistent clustering technique for VLSI circuit placement
Placement is a critical component of today's physical synthesis flow with tremendous impact on the final performance of VLSI designs. However, it accounts for a significant p...
Charles J. Alpert, Andrew B. Kahng, Gi-Joon Nam, S...
DAC
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Characterization and Estimation of Circuit Reliability Degradation under NBTI using On-Line IDDQ Measurement
Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) in MOSFETs is one of the major reliability challenges in nano-scale technology. This paper presents an efficient technique to characte...
Kunhyuk Kang, Kee-Jong Kim, Ahmad E. Islam, Muhamm...
GLVLSI
2006
IEEE
193views VLSI» more  GLVLSI 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Optimizing noise-immune nanoscale circuits using principles of Markov random fields
As CMOS devices and operating voltages are scaled down, noise and defective devices will impact the reliability of digital circuits. Probabilistic computing compatible with CMOS o...
Kundan Nepal, R. Iris Bahar, Joseph L. Mundy, Will...