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DAC
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Keeping hot chips cool
With 90nm CMOS in production and 65nm testing in progress, power has been pushed to the forefront of design metrics. This paper will outline practical techniques that are used to ...
Ruchir Puri, Leon Stok, Subhrajit Bhattacharya
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
161views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2009»
13 years 6 months ago
The epsilon-approximation to discrete VT assignment for leakage power minimization
As VLSI technology reaches 45nm technology node, leakage power optimization has become a major design challenge. Threshold voltage (vt) assignment has been extensively studied, du...
Yujia Feng, Shiyan Hu
TVLSI
2010
13 years 3 months ago
A Novel Variation-Tolerant Keeper Architecture for High-Performance Low-Power Wide Fan-In Dynamic or Gates
Dynamic gates have been excellent choice in the design of high-performance modules in modern microprocessors. The only limitation of dynamic gates is their relatively low noise mar...
Hamed F. Dadgour, Kaustav Banerjee
ISQED
2009
IEEE
91views Hardware» more  ISQED 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Variability-aware optimization of nano-CMOS Active Pixel Sensors using design and analysis of Monte Carlo experiments
We propose a novel design flow for mismatch and processvariation aware optimization of nanoscale CMOS Active Pixel Sensor (APS) arrays. As a case study, an 8 × 8 APS array is de...
Dhruva Ghai, Saraju P. Mohanty, Elias Kougianos
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
117views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Adaptive techniques for overcoming performance degradation due to aging in digital circuits
— Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) in PMOS transistors has become a major reliability concern in present-day digital circuit design. Further, with the recent usage of...
Sanjay V. Kumar, Chris H. Kim, Sachin S. Sapatneka...