Metal-only ECO realizes the last-minute design changes by revising the photomasks of metal layers only. This task is challenging because the pre-injected spare cells are limited b...
Post-silicon validation has recently drawn designers' attention due to its increasing impacts on the VLSI design cycle and cost. One key feature of the post-silicon validatio...
Starting from the 90nm technology node, process induced stress has played a key role in the design of highperformance devices. The emergence of source/drain silicon germanium (S/D ...
Advances in System-on-Chip (SoC) technology rely on manufacturing and assembling high-performance system cores for many critical applications. Among these cores, memory occupies t...
Minsu Choi, Nohpill Park, Fabrizio Lombardi, Yong-...