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SBCCI
2006
ACM
126views VLSI» more  SBCCI 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Power constrained design optimization of analog circuits based on physical gm/ID characteristics
This paper presents a transistor optimization methodology for low-power analog integrated CMOS circuits, relying on the physics-based gm/ID characteristics as a design optimizatio...
Alessandro Girardi, Sergio Bampi
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
142views Hardware» more  ICCAD 1997»
14 years 24 days ago
Library-less synthesis for static CMOS combinational logic circuits
Traditional synthesis techniques optimize CMOS circuits in two phases i) logic minimization and ii) library mapping phase. Typically, the structures and the sizes of the gates in ...
Sergey Gavrilov, Alexey Glebov, Satyamurthy Pullel...
DATE
2008
IEEE
131views Hardware» more  DATE 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
Optimal MTCMOS Reactivation Under Power Supply Noise and Performance Constraints
Sleep transistor insertion is one of today’s most promising and widely adopted solutions for controlling stand-by leakage power in nanometer circuits. Although single-cycle powe...
Andrea Calimera, Luca Benini, Enrico Macii
ISQED
2007
IEEE
136views Hardware» more  ISQED 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Strain Silicon Optimization for Memory and Logic in Nano-Scale CMOS
Straining of silicon improves mobility of carriers resulting in speed enhancement for transistors in CMOS technology. Traditionally, silicon straining is applied in a similar ad-h...
Rajani Kuchipudi, Hamid Mahmoodi
ISQED
2010
IEEE
177views Hardware» more  ISQED 2010»
14 years 3 months ago
Multi-corner, energy-delay optimized, NBTI-aware flip-flop design
With the CMOS transistors being scaled to sub 45nm and lower, Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has become a major concern due to its impact on PMOS transistor aging pr...
Hamed Abrishami, Safar Hatami, Massoud Pedram