As technology continues to scale beyond 100nm, there is a significant increase in performance uncertainty of CMOS logic due to process and environmental variations. Traditional c...
Dinesh Patil, Sunghee Yun, Seung-Jean Kim, Alvin C...
Adding on-chip decoupling capacitors (decaps) is an effective way to reduce voltage noise in power/ground networks and ensure robust power delivery. In this paper, we present a fa...
Zhenyu Qi, Hang Li, Sheldon X.-D. Tan, Lifeng Wu, ...
Recently, a new Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) scheme has been proposed that increases energy efficiency significantly by allowing the processor to operate at or slightly below the...
David Roberts, Todd M. Austin, David Blaauw, Trevo...
Hierarchical approach greatly facilitates large-scale chip design by hiding distracting details in low-level objects. However, the lowlevel designs have to have a global view of h...
Due to the rapid development of manufacturing process technology and tight marketing schedule, the chip design and manufacturing always work toward an integrated solution to achie...