In the way they cope with variability, present-day methodologies are onerous, pessimistic and risky, all at the same time! Dealing with variability is an increasingly important as...
Starting from a model of the within-die systematic variations using principal components analysis, a model is proposed for estimation of the parametric yield, and is then applied ...
Variations in the semiconductor fabrication process results in variability in parameters between transistors on the same die, a problem exacerbated by lithographic scaling. The re...
Leakage current has become a stringent constraint in today’s processor designs in addition to traditional constraints on frequency. Since leakage current exhibits a strong inver...
Rajeev R. Rao, Anirudh Devgan, David Blaauw, Denni...