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DFT
2004
IEEE
93views VLSI» more  DFT 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
First Level Hold: A Novel Low-Overhead Delay Fault Testing Technique
This paper presents a novel delay fault testing technique, which can be used as an alternative to the enhanced scan based delay fault testing, with significantly less design overh...
Swarup Bhunia, Hamid Mahmoodi-Meimand, Arijit Rayc...
TCAD
2008
172views more  TCAD 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
General Methodology for Soft-Error-Aware Power Optimization Using Gate Sizing
Power consumption has emerged as the premier and most constraining aspect in modern microprocessor and application-specific designs. Gate sizing has been shown to be one of the mos...
Foad Dabiri, Ani Nahapetian, Tammara Massey, Miodr...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
108views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
Soft error reduction in combinational logic using gate resizing and flipflop selection
Soft errors in logic are emerging as a significant reliability problem for VLSI designs. This paper presents novel circuit optimization techniques to mitigate soft error rates (SE...
Rajeev R. Rao, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester
ASPDAC
2004
ACM
126views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2004»
14 years 27 days ago
High-level area and power-up current estimation considering rich cell library
— Reducing the ever-growing leakage power is critical to power efficient designs. Leakage reduction techniques such as power-gating using sleep transistor insertion introduces la...
Fei Li, Lei He, Joseph M. Basile, Rakesh J. Patel,...
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
122views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Total power optimization combining placement, sizing and multi-Vt through slack distribution management
Power dissipation is quickly becoming one of the most important limiters in nanometer IC design for leakage increases exponentially as the technology scaling down. However, power ...
Tao Luo, David Newmark, David Z. Pan