—Pre-bond testing of 3-D stacked integrated circuits (ICs) involves testing each individual die before bonding. The overall yield of 3-D ICs improves with pre-bond testability be...
Xin Zhao, Dean L. Lewis, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee, Sung K...
— With advanced VLSI manufacturing technology in deep submicron (DSM) regime, we can integrate entire electronic systems on a single chip (SoC). Due to the complexity in SoC desi...
Guarded evaluation is a power reduction technique that involves identifying sub-circuits (within a larger circuit) whose inputs can be held constant (guarded) at specific times d...
As chip multiprocessors (CMPs) become the only viable way to scale up and utilize the abundant transistors made available in current microprocessors, the design of on-chip network...
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The design of clock distribution networks in synchronous digital systems presents enormous challenges. Controlling the clock signal delay in the presence of various noise sources,...
Dimitrios Velenis, Marios C. Papaefthymiou, Eby G....