Achieving design closure is one of the biggest headaches for modern VLSI designers. This problem is exacerbated by high-level design automation tools that ignore increasingly impo...
Zhenyu (Peter) Gu, Jia Wang, Robert P. Dick, Hai Z...
– There has been a recent shift in design paradigms, with many turning towards yield-driven approaches to synthesize and design systems. A major cause of this shift is the contin...
Tolerating defects and fabrication variations will be critical in any system made with devices that have nanometer feature sizes. This paper considers how fabrication variations a...
Michael T. Niemier, Michael Crocker, Xiaobo Sharon...
We present a visualization tool called PLFire, which allows a user to observe the behavior of a Phased Logic (PL) circuit. Phased logic is a technique for realizing self-timed cir...
Kenneth Fazel, Mitchell A. Thornton, Robert B. Ree...
Manufacturing disturbances are inevitable in the fabrication of integrated circuits. These disturbances will result in variations in the delay specications of manufactured circui...