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2008
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Analysis and minimization of practical energy in 45nm subthreshold logic circuits
Abstract— Over the last decade, the design of ultra-lowpower digital circuits in subthreshold regime has been driven by the quest for minimum energy per operation. In this contri...
David Bol, Renaud Ambroise, Denis Flandre, Jean-Di...
DATE
2008
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
A Variation Aware High Level Synthesis Framework
— The worst-case delay/power of function units has been used in traditional high level synthesis to facilitate design space exploration. As technology scales to nanometer regime,...
Feng Wang 0004, Guangyu Sun, Yuan Xie
ISQED
2007
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Variation Aware Timing Based Placement Using Fuzzy Programming
In nanometer regime, the effects of variations are having an increasing impact on the delay and power characteristics of devices as well as the yield of the circuit. Statistical t...
Venkataraman Mahalingam, N. Ranganathan
DATE
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Optimal periodic testing of intermittent faults in embedded pipelined processor applications
Today’s nanometer technology trends have a very negative impact on the reliability of semiconductor products. Intermittent faults constitute the largest part of reliability fail...
Nektarios Kranitis, Andreas Merentitis, N. Laoutar...
ISQED
2010
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Multi-corner, energy-delay optimized, NBTI-aware flip-flop design
With the CMOS transistors being scaled to sub 45nm and lower, Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has become a major concern due to its impact on PMOS transistor aging pr...
Hamed Abrishami, Safar Hatami, Massoud Pedram