This paper proposes a hybrid memory architecture which consists of the following two regions; 1) a dynamic power conscious region which uses low Vdd and Vth and 2) a static power ...
Due to the increasing complexity of today's circuits a high degree of automation in the design process is mandatory. The detection of faults and design errors is supported qu...
This paper presents an improved Tree-based architecture that unifies two unidirectional programmable networks: A predictible downward network based on the Butterfly-FatTree topolo...
Zied Marrakchi, Hayder Mrabet, Emna Amouri, Habib ...
The main contribution of this work is an analytical model for finding the upper bound on the temperature difference among various locations on the die. The proposed model can be u...
This paper presents a process variation tolerant, SoC ready, 1GS/s, 6 bit flash analog-to-digital converter (ADC) suitable for integration into nanoscale digital CMOS technologie...
This paper presents the design and evaluation of a new SRAM cell made of nine transistors (9T). The proposed 9T cell utilizes a scheme with separate read and write wordlines; it i...
With the scaling down of the CMOS technologies, Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has become a major concern due to its impact on PMOS transistor aging process and the ...
Hamed Abrishami, Safar Hatami, Behnam Amelifard, M...
Phase-based tuning methodologies specialize system parameters for each application phase of execution. Parameters are varied during execution, as opposed to remaining fixed as in ...
This paper presents in-order pulsed charge recycling to reduce energy consumption in an off-chip data bus. The proposed technique performs charge recycling by employing three step...