Traditional synthesis techniques optimize CMOS circuits in two phases i) logic minimization and ii) library mapping phase. Typically, the structures and the sizes of the gates in ...
This paper presents a swarm intelligence based approach to optimally partition combinational CMOS circuits for pseudoexhaustive testing. The partitioning algorithm ensures reducti...
Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Scott C. Smith, Gaurav ...
Straining of silicon improves mobility of carriers resulting in speed enhancement for transistors in CMOS technology. Traditionally, silicon straining is applied in a similar ad-h...
Abstract--Technology scaling in the nanometer era has increased the transistor's susceptibility to process variations. The effects of such variations are having a huge impact ...
Venkataraman Mahalingam, N. Ranganathan, J. E. Har...
—Power consumption has emerged as the premier and most constraining aspect in modern microprocessor and application-specific designs. Gate sizing has been shown to be one of the...
Foad Dabiri, Ani Nahapetian, Miodrag Potkonjak, Ma...