Certain manufacturing steps in very deep submicron VLSI involve chemical-mechanical polishing CMP which has varying e ects on device and interconnect features, depending on loca...
Andrew B. Kahng, Gabriel Robins, Anish Singh, Alex...
With shrinking feature size and growing integration density in the Deep Sub-Micron technologies, the global buses are fast becoming the “weakest-links” in VLSI design. They ha...
In deep submicron VLSI circuits, interconnect reliability due to electromigration and thermal effects is fast becoming a serious design issue particularly for long signal lines. T...
: Scaling down in very deep submicron (VDSM) technologies increases the delay, power consumption of on-chip interconnects, while the reliability and yield decrease. In high perform...
Vladimir Pasca, Lorena Anghel, Claudia Rusu, Ricca...
Multiple clock cycles are needed to cross the global interconnects for multi-gigahertz designs in nanometer technologies. For synchronous designs, this requires retiming and pipel...