As technology continues to scale beyond 100nm, there is a significant increase in performance uncertainty of CMOS logic due to process and environmental variations. Traditional c...
Dinesh Patil, Sunghee Yun, Seung-Jean Kim, Alvin C...
⎯ Technology scaling is in the era where the chip performance is constrained by its power dissipation. Although the power limits vary with the application domain, they dictate th...
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...
- As shown by previous studies, shorts between the interconnect wires should be considered as the predominant cause of failures in CMOS circuits. Fault models and tools for targeti...
Maksim Jenihhin, Jaan Raik, Raimund Ubar, Witold A...
- The problem of determining lower bounds for the energy cost of a given nanoscale design is addressed via a complexity theory-based approach. This paper provides a theoretical fra...