Passive macromodeling for RF circuit blocks is a critical task to facilitate efficient system-level simulation for large-scale RF systems (e.g., wireless transceivers). In this pa...
Ying-Chih Wang, Shihui Yin, Minhee Jun, Xin Li 000...
As the feature size shrinks, electromigration (EM) becomes a more critical reliability issue in IC design. EM around the via structures accounts for much of the reliability proble...
Early stage power estimation is critical for SoC architecture exploration and validation in modern VLSI design, but realtime, long time interval and accurate estimation is still c...
Jianlei Yang, Liwei Ma, Kang Zhao, Yici Cai, Tin-F...
—Recently, an emerging non-volatile memory called Racetrack Memory (RM) becomes promising to satisfy the requirement of increasing on-chip memory capacity. RM can achieve ultra-h...
Chao Zhang, Guangyu Sun, Weiqi Zhang, Fan Mi, Hai ...
– This paper presents a low power and low noise sub-harmonically injection-locked PLL using a 20GHz sub-sampling PLL (SS-PLL) and a quadrature injection locked oscillator (QILO)....
Abstract—The emerging nonvolatile memory (NVM) technology can potentially change the landscape of future IC designs with numerous benefits, such as high performance, low leakage...
Shuangchen Li, Ang Li, Yongpan Liu, Yuan Xie 0001,...
The high performance demand of embedded systems along with restrictive thermal design power (TDP) constraint have lead to the emergence of the heterogenous multi-core architecture...
Cheng Tan, Thannirmalai Somu Muthukaruppan, Tulika...
—Dynamic energy pricing is a promising technique in the Smart Grid to alleviate the mismatch between electricity generation and consumption. Energy consumers are incentivized to ...
Ji Li, Yanzhi Wang, Xue Lin, Shahin Nazarian, Mass...
—System-Level Design Languages (SLDL) allow component-oriented specifications, e.g. for separating computation and communication. This separation allows for a flexible model co...
Abstract— Memristive crossbars have been shown to be excellent candidates for building an ultra-dense memory system because a per-cell access-transistor may no longer be necessar...
Amirali Ghofrani, Miguel Angel Lastras-Monta&ntild...