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2009
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Imperfection-immune VLSI logic circuits using Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors
Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors (CNFETs) show big promise as extensions to silicon-CMOS because: 1) Ideal CNFETs can provide significant energy and performance benefits o...
Subhasish Mitra, Jie Zhang, Nishant Patil, Hai Wei
ITC
2003
IEEE
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14 years 19 days ago
Effectiveness Improvement of ECR Tests
Energy Consumption Ratio (ECR) test, a current-based test, has shown its ability to reduce the impact of process variations and detect hard-to-detect faults. The effectiveness of ...
Wanli Jiang, Erik Peterson, Bob Robotka
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
STAC: statistical timing analysis with correlation
Current technology trends have led to the growing impact of both inter-die and intra-die process variations on circuit performance. While it is imperative to model parameter varia...
Jiayong Le, Xin Li, Lawrence T. Pileggi
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Statistical modeling and simulation of threshold variation under dopant fluctuations and line-edge roughness
The threshold voltage (Vth) of a nanoscale transistor is severely affected by random dopant fluctuations and line-edge roughness. The analysis of these effects usually requires at...
Yun Ye, Frank Liu, Sani R. Nassif, Yu Cao
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The mixed signal optimum energy point: voltage and parallelism
An energy optimization is proposed that addresses the nontrivial digital contribution to power and impact on performance in high-speed mixed-signal circuits. Parallel energy and b...
Brian P. Ginsburg, Anantha P. Chandrakasan