Clock distribution is one of the key limiting factors in any high speed, sub-100nm VLSI design. Unwanted clock skews, caused by variation effects like manufacturing variations, po...
The inductance effects become significant for sub-100nm process designs due to increasing interconnect lengths, lower interconnect resistance values and fast signal transition tim...
Santosh Shah, Arani Sinha, Li Song, Narain D. Aror...
Abstract. Network processors are programmable devices that can process packets at a high speed. A network processor is typified by multithreading and heterogeneous multiprocessing...
Lixia Liu, Xiao-Feng Li, Michael K. Chen, Roy Dz-C...
Energy-efficient processor design is becoming more and more important with technology scaling and with high performance requirements. Supply-voltage scaling is an efficient way to...
Hai Li, Chen-Yong Cher, T. N. Vijaykumar, Kaushik ...
—The dynamic programmable logic array (PLA) style has become popular in designing high-performance microprocessors because of its high speed and predictable routing delay. Howeve...