Routability optimization has become a major concern in the physical design cycle of VLSI circuits. Due to the recent advances in VLSI technology, interconnect has become a dominan...
— Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has the potential to become one of the main show-stoppers of circuit reliability in nanometer scale devices due to its deleterious ...
Sanjay V. Kumar, Chris H. Kim, Sachin S. Sapatneka...
A methodology for constructing circuit-level mismatch models and performing yield optimization is presented for CMOS analog circuits. The methodology combines statistical techniqu...
Noise can cause digital circuits to switch incorrectly and thus produce spurious results. Noise can also have adverse power, timing and reliability e ects. Dynamic logic is partic...
Andrew R. Conn, Ruud A. Haring, Chandramouli Viswe...
Metastability is a phenomenon that can cause system failures in digital circuits. It may occur whenever signals are being transmitted across asynchronous or unrelated clock domain...