Decreasing feature sizes and increasing package densities are making thermal issues extremely important in IC design. Uneven thermal maps and hot spots in ICs cause physical stres...
Because domino logic design offers smaller area and higher speed than complementary CMOS design, it has been very popularly used to design highperformance processors. However: dom...
Parameter variation in scaled technologies beyond 90nm will pose a major challenge for design of future high performance microprocessors. In this paper, we discuss process, voltag...
We describe a built-in test pattern generation method for scan circuits. The method is based on partitioning and storage of test sets. Under this method, a precomputed test set is...
SOI (silicon-on-insulator) technology suffers from a number of floating body effects, most notably parasitic bipolar and history effects. These are influenced by the rapidly incre...