ASYNC
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
— Synchronizers play a key role in multi-clock domain systems on chip. Traditionally, improvement of synchronization parameters with scaling has been assumed. In particular, the ...
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
2008
ACM
The timing models used in current Static Timing Analysis tools use gate delays only for single input switching events. It is well known that the temporal proximity of signals arriv...
ICCAD
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Deep submicron technology calls for new design techniques, in which wire and gate delays are accounted to have equal or nearly equal effect on circuit behaviour. Asynchronous spee...
GLVLSI
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
—Interconnect inductance introduces a shielding effect which decreases the effective capacitance seen by the driver of a circuit, reducing the gate delay. A model of the effectiv...
GLVLSI
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
We study gate delay variation caused by crosstalk aggressor alignment, i.e., difference of signal arrival times in coupled neighboring interconnects. This effect is as significan...
DATE
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Abstract— Continuing scaling of CMOS technology has allowed aggressive pursuant of increased clock rate in DSM chips. The ever shorter clock period has made switching times of di...
VTS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
: Conventionally, path delay tests are derived in a delay-independent manner, which causes most faults to be robustly untestable. Many non-robust tests are found but, in practice, ...
VLSID
2003
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2003
IEEE
In the previous work, the problem of nding gate delays to eliminate glitches has been solved by linear programs (LP) requiring an exponentially large number ofconstraints. By intr...
DAC
2000
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
2000
ACM
This paper derives a methodology for developing accurate convex delay models to be used for transistor sizing. A new rich class of convex functions to model gate delay is presente...