Variability of process parameters makes prediction of digital circuit timing characteristics an important and challenging problem in modern chip design. Recently, statistical stat...
Hongliang Chang, Vladimir Zolotov, Sambasivan Nara...
—Variations of process parameters have an important impact on reliability and yield in deep sub micron IC technologies. One methodology to estimate the influence of these effects...
When a signal traverses on-chip voltage domains, a level shifter is required. Inverters can handle a high to low voltage shift with minimal leakage. For a low to high voltage leve...
In recent years, due to rapid advances in VLSI manufacturing technology capable of packing more and more devices and wires on a chip, crosstalk has emerged as a serious problem af...
As Double Patterning Lithography(DPL) becomes the leading candidate for sub-30nm lithography process, we need a fast and lithography friendly decomposition framework. In this pape...
Jae-Seok Yang, Katrina Lu, Minsik Cho, Kun Yuan, D...