With increasing clock frequencies and silicon integration, power aware computing has become a critical concern in the design of embedded processors and systems-on-chip. One of the...
Dan Ernst, Nam Sung Kim, Shidhartha Das, Sanjay Pa...
Scan chains are widely used to improve the testability of IC designs. In traditional 2D IC designs, various design techniques on the construction of scan chains have been proposed...
Interconnect has become the dominating factor in determining circuit performance and reliability in deep submicron designs. In this embedded tutorial, we first discuss the trends...
Jason Cong, David Zhigang Pan, Lei He, Cheng-Kok K...
Semiconductor manufacturing process scaling increases leakage and transistor variations, both of which are problematic for static random access memory (SRAM). Since SRAM is a criti...
Sayeed A. Badrudduza, Ziyan Wang, Giby Samson, Law...
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...