High performance integrated circuits are now reaching the 100-plus watt regime, and power delivery and power grid signal integrity have become critical. Analyzing the performance ...
Haifeng Qian, Sani R. Nassif, Sachin S. Sapatnekar
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 ...
Tri-state buses and pass transistor logic are used in many complex applications to achieve high performance and small area. Such circuits often contain logic requiring one-hot sig...
Subhasish Mitra, LaNae J. Avra, Edward J. McCluske...
Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) has been a significant reliability concern in current digital circuit design due to its effect of increasing the path delay with time a...
Song Jin, Yinhe Han, Lei Zhang 0008, Huawei Li, Xi...
This paper presents a technique to visualize the communication pattern of a parallel application at different points during its execution. Unlike many existing tools that show the...
Alex K. Jones, Raymond R. Hoare, Joseph St. Onge, ...