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DFT
2000
IEEE
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An Experimental Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Automatic Rule-Based Transformations for Safety-Critical Applications
1 Over the last years, an increasing number of safety-critical tasks have been demanded to computer systems. In particular, safety-critical computer-based applications are hitting ...
Maurizio Rebaudengo, Matteo Sonza Reorda, Marco To...
DFT
2000
IEEE
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Low-Speed Scan Testing of Charge-Sharing Faults for CMOS Domino Circuits
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...
Ching-Hwa Cheng, Jinn-Shyan Wang, Shih-Chieh Chang...
GLVLSI
2010
IEEE
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Graphene tunneling FET and its applications in low-power circuit design
Graphene nanoribbon tunneling FETs (GNR TFETs) are promising devices for post-CMOS low-power applications because of the low subthreshold swing, high Ion/Ioff, and potential for l...
Xuebei Yang, Jyotsna Chauhan, Jing Guo, Kartik Moh...
GLVLSI
2010
IEEE
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Write activity reduction on flash main memory via smart victim cache
Flash Memory is a desirable candidate for main memory replacement in embedded systems due to its low leakage power consumption, higher density and non-volatility characteristics. ...
Liang Shi, Chun Jason Xue, Jingtong Hu, Wei-Che Ts...
GLVLSI
2010
IEEE
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Improving the testability and reliability of sequential circuits with invariant logic
In this paper, we investigate dual applications for logic implications, which can provide both online error detection capabilities and improve the testing efficiency of an integr...
Nuno Alves, Kundan Nepal, Jennifer Dworak, R. Iris...
GLVLSI
2010
IEEE
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Clock skew reduction by self-compensating manufacturing variability with on-chip sensors
This paper presents a self-compensation scheme of manufacturing variability for clock skew reduction. In the proposed scheme, a CDN with embedded variability sensors tunes variabl...
Shinya Abe, Kenichi Shinkai, Masanori Hashimoto, T...
VTS
2002
IEEE
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Power Supply Transient Signal Analysis Under Real Process and Test Hardware Models
A device testing method called Transient Signal Analysis (TSA) is subjected to elements of a real process and testing environment in this paper. Simulations experiments are design...
Abhishek Singh, Jim Plusquellic, Anne E. Gattiker
VTS
2002
IEEE
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Test Power Reduction through Minimization of Scan Chain Transitions
Parallel test application helps reduce the otherwise considerable test times in SOCs; yet its applicability is limited by average and peak power considerations. The typical test v...
Ozgur Sinanoglu, Ismet Bayraktaroglu, Alex Orailog...
VTS
2002
IEEE
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LI-BIST: A Low-Cost Self-Test Scheme for SoC Logic Cores and Interconnects
For deep sub-micron system-on-chips (SoC), interconnects are critical determinants of performance, reliability and power. Buses and long interconnects being susceptible to crossta...
Krishna Sekar, Sujit Dey
VTS
2002
IEEE
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Controlling Peak Power During Scan Testing
This paper presents a procedure for modifying a given set of scan vectors so that the peak power during scan testing is kept below a specified limit without reducing fault coverag...
Ranganathan Sankaralingam, Nur A. Touba