— 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...