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2007
IEEE
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2007
IEEE
Soft error due to ionizing radiation is emerging as a major concern for future technologies. The measurement unit for failures due to soft errors is called Failure-In-Time (FIT) t...
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2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
This paper studies multi-dimensional optimization at both circuit and micro-architecture levels. By formulating and solving the optimization problem with conflicting design objec...
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2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
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2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
The deep submicron (DSM) semiconductor technologies will make the worst-case design impossible, since they can not provide design margins that it requires. Research directions sho...
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2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
Parameter variation in integrated circuits causes sections of a chip to be slower than others. To prevent any resulting timing errors, designers have traditionally designed for th...
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2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
In this paper we address the problem of reducing the energy consumption in distributed embedded systems associated with time-constraints and equipped with fault-tolerant technique...
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2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
In this paper, we propose a new approach to enforcing the passivity of a reduced system of general passive linear time invariant circuits. Instead of making the reduced models pas...
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2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
This paper studies the impact of variability on the noise robustness of logic gates using noise rejection curves (NRCs). NRCs allow noise pulses to be modeled using magnitude-dura...
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2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) has come to the forefront of critical reliability phenomena in advanced CMOS technology. In this paper, we propose a fast and accurate...
ISQED
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
According to the current trend of increasing variations in process technologies and thus in performance, the conservative worst-case design will not work since design margins can ...