Chip multiprocessors (CMP) are widely used for high performance computing. Further, these CMPs are being configured in a hierarchical manner to compose a node in a cluster system....
Xingfu Wu, Valerie E. Taylor, Charles W. Lively, S...
High performance integrated circuits are now reaching the 100-plus watt regime, and power delivery and power grid signal integrity have become critical. Analyzing the performance ...
Haifeng Qian, Sani R. Nassif, Sachin S. Sapatnekar
CMOS gates consume different amounts of power whether their output has a falling or a rising edge. Therefore the overall power consumption of a CMOS circuit leaks information about...
Sylvain Guilley, Philippe Hoogvorst, Renaud Pacale...
—As the operating frequency of digital systems increases and voltage swing decreases, it becomes very important to characterize and analyze power distribution networks (PDNs) acc...
Wendemagegnehu T. Beyene, Chuck Yuan, Joong-Ho Kim...
This paper develops an improved approach for hierarchical functional test generation for complex chips. In order to deal with the increasing complexity of functional test generati...