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2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Statistical approach in a system level methodology to deal with process variation
The impact of process variation in state of the art technology makes traditional (worst case) designs unnecessarily pessimistic, which translates to suboptimal designs in terms of...
Concepción Sanz Pineda, Manuel Prieto, Jos&...
DRR
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient implementation of local adaptive thresholding techniques using integral images
Adaptive binarization is an important first step in many document analysis and OCR processes. This paper describes a fast adaptive binarization algorithm that yields the same qual...
Faisal Shafait, Daniel Keysers, Thomas M. Breuel
DATE
2009
IEEE
95views Hardware» more  DATE 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Minimization of NBTI performance degradation using internal node control
—Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) is a significant reliability concern for nanoscale CMOS circuits. Its effects on circuit timing can be especially pronounced for ci...
David R. Bild, Gregory E. Bok, Robert P. Dick
FCCM
2008
IEEE
112views VLSI» more  FCCM 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Power-Aware and Branch-Aware Word-Length Optimization
Power reduction is becoming more important as circuit size increases. This paper presents a tool called PowerCutter which employs accuracy-guaranteed word-length optimization to r...
William G. Osborne, José Gabriel F. Coutinh...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
169views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
Microarchitecture parameter selection to optimize system performance under process variation
Abstract— Design variability due to within-die and die-todie process variations has the potential to significantly reduce the maximum operating frequency and the effective yield...
Xiaoyao Liang, David Brooks