Multi-threshold CMOS (MTCMOS) is an effective powergating technique to reduce IC's leakage power consumption by turning off idle devices with MTCMOS switches. However, few ex...
Tsun-Ming Tseng, Mango Chia-Tso Chao, Chien Pang L...
Testing of VLSI circuits can cause generation of excessive heat which can damage the chips under test. In the random testing environment, high-performance CMOS circuits consume sig...
Artem Sokolov, Alodeep Sanyal, L. Darrell Whitley,...
— Clock-gating and power-gating have proven to be very effective solutions for reducing dynamic and static power, respectively. The two techniques may be coupled in such a way th...
Leticia Maria Veiras Bolzani, Andrea Calimera, Alb...
With the scaling down of the CMOS technologies, Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has become a major concern due to its impact on PMOS transistor aging process and the ...
Hamed Abrishami, Safar Hatami, Behnam Amelifard, M...
State-of-the-art technologies in very large scale integration (VLSI) allow for the realization of gates with varying energy consumptions and hence delays (i.e., processing speeds) ...