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ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
An analytical model for negative bias temperature instability
— Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) in PMOS transistors has become a significant reliability concern in present day digital circuit design. With continued scaling, th...
Sanjay V. Kumar, Chris H. Kim, Sachin S. Sapatneka...
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
147views VLSI» more  GLVLSI 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Statistical timing analysis of flip-flops considering codependent setup and hold times
Statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) plays a key role in determining performance of the VLSI circuits implemented in state-of-the-art CMOS technology. A pre-requisite for emp...
Safar Hatami, Hamed Abrishami, Massoud Pedram
DAC
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Global Critical Path: A Tool for System-Level Timing Analysis
An effective method for focusing optimization effort on the most important parts of a design is to examine those elements on the critical path. Traditionally, the critical path is...
Girish Venkataramani, Mihai Budiu, Tiberiu Chelcea...
ICCAD
1998
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Noise considerations in circuit optimization
Noise can cause digital circuits to switch incorrectly and thus produce spurious results. Noise can also have adverse power, timing and reliability e ects. Dynamic logic is partic...
Andrew R. Conn, Ruud A. Haring, Chandramouli Viswe...
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Temperature-aware resource allocation and binding in high-level synthesis
Physical phenomena such as temperature have an increasingly important role in performance and reliability of modern process technologies. This trend will only strengthen with futu...
Rajarshi Mukherjee, Seda Ogrenci Memik, Gokhan Mem...