Abstract— The impact of process variations increases as technology scales to nanometer region. Under large process variations, the path and arc/node criticality [18] provide effe...
The path-delay fault simulation of functional tests on complex circuits such as current processor-based systems is a daunting task. The amount of computing power and memory needed...
Paolo Bernardi, Michelangelo Grosso, Matteo Sonza ...
In modern IC design, the number of long on-chip wires has been growing rapidly because of the increasing circuit complexity. Interconnect delay has dominated over gate delay as te...
Jill H. Y. Law, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Royce L. S...
—The thermal gradients existing in high-performance circuits may significantly affect their timing behavior, in particular, by increasing the skew of the clock net and/or alteri...
The integration of retiming and simultaneous supply/threshold voltage scaling has a potential to enable more rigorous total power reduction. However, such integration is a highly ...