Although processor design verification consumes ever-increasing resources, many design defects still slip into production silicon. In a few cases, such bugs have caused expensive...
Smruti R. Sarangi, Abhishek Tiwari, Josep Torrella...
Parameter variation in integrated circuits causes sections of a chip to be slower than others. If, to prevent any resulting timing errors, we design processors for worst-case para...
Smruti R. Sarangi, Brian Greskamp, Abhishek Tiwari...
Continuous technology scaling has brought us to a point, where transistors have become extremely susceptible to cosmic radiation strikes, or soft errors. Inside the processor, cac...
Functional correctness is a vital attribute of any hardware design. Unfortunately, due to extremely complex architectures, widespread components, such as microprocessors, are often...
As semiconductor technology scales, reliability is becoming an increasingly crucial challenge in microprocessor design. The rSRAM and voltage scaling are two promising circuit-lev...