A fabless company perspective is presented on the roles of the foundries, design entities and EDA providers in the DFM arena, and the requirements for measurement of the economic ...
Traditional corner analysis fails to guarantee a target yield for a given performance metric. However, recently proposed solutions, in the form of statistical timing analysis, whi...
The continual demand for greater performance and growing concerns about the power consumption in highperformance microprocessors make the branch predictor a critical component of ...
To reduce power, Vdd programmability has been proposed recently to select Vdd-level for interconnects and to powergate unused interconnects. However, Vdd-level converters used in ...
Die-to-die and within-die variations impact the frequency and power of fabricated dies, affecting functionality, performance, and revenue. Variation-tolerant circuits and post-sil...