— Clock meshes posses inherent low clock skews and excellent immunity to PVT variations, and have increasingly found their way to high-performance IC designs. However, analysis o...
Xiaoji Ye, Peng Li, Min Zhao, Rajendran Panda, Jia...
Functional verification of systems is aimed at validating the integration of previously verified components. It deals with complex designs, and invariably suffers from scarce re...
The design methods and the automation of the comparator circuit layout generation for a flash A/D converter are presented in this paper. The threshold inverter quantization (TIQ)...
This paper considers z-domain transfer functions whose denominator polynomial possesses the property that the coefficient of zi is greater than the coefficient of zi-1 . Such trans...
Christian S. Gargour, Venkat Ramachandran, Ravi P....
With increasing process variation, binning has become an important technique to improve the values of fabricated chips, especially in high performance microprocessors where transpa...