CSREAESA
2003
14 years 3 days ago
2003
In this paper we address the problem of minimization of power consumption in combinational circuits by minimizing the number of switching transitions at the output nodes of each g...
ITC
1995
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
1995
IEEE
An experiment has been designed to evaluate multiple testing techniques for combinational circuits. To perform the experiment, a 25k gate CMOS Test Chip has been designed, manufac...
FPGA
1997
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
1997
ACM
Programmable logic architectures increase in capacity before commercial circuits are designed for them, yielding a distinct problem for FPGA vendors: how to test and evaluate the ...
DATE
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Methods for performing component matching by expressing an arithmetic specification and a bit-level description of an implementation as word-level polynomials have been demonstrat...
DATE
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
The problem of checking the equivalence of combinational circuits is of key significance in the verification of digital circuits. In recent years, several approaches have been pro...
DATE
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Estimating switching activity is a crucial step in optimizing circuits for low power. In this paper, a fast gate level switching activity estimator for combinational circuits will...
DATE
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
This paper presents a technique for glitch power minimization in combinational circuits. The total number of glitches is reduced by replacing some existing gates with functionally...
VTS
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2006
IEEE
Abstract: An optimization algorithm for the design of combinational circuits that are robust to single-event upsets (SEUs) is described. A simple, highly accurate model for the SEU...
ISQED
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2006
IEEE
This paper is concerned with statically analyzing the susceptibility of arbitrary combinational circuits to single event upsets that are becoming a significant concern for reliabi...
DATE
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2006
IEEE
Soft errors have emerged as an important reliability challenge for nanoscale VLSI designs. In this paper, we present a fast and efficient soft error rate (SER) computation algorit...