Design verification has become a bottleneck of modern designs. Recently, simulation-based random verification has attracted a lot of interests due to its effectiveness in uncoveri...
— In the past, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) has been widely used for power and energy optimization in embedded system design. As thermal issues become increasingl...
Yongpan Liu, Huazhong Yang, Robert P. Dick, Hui Wa...
Process related variations are considered a major concern in emerging sub-65nm technologies. In this paper, we investigate the impact of process variations on different types of c...
In this paper, we address the interconnect-driven floorplanning problem that integrates OPC-friendly bus assignment with floorplanning. Buses consist of a number of horizontal/v...
Hua Xiang, Liang Deng, Li-Da Huang, Martin D. F. W...
Straining of silicon improves mobility of carriers resulting in speed enhancement for transistors in CMOS technology. Traditionally, silicon straining is applied in a similar ad-h...
Abstract— Self-calibrating designs have recently gained momentum as an alternative to methods relying on worst-case characterisation of silicon [2], [4], [8]. So far, reliable op...
We present a novel technique to exploit the power-performance tradeoff. The technique can be used stand-alone or in conjunction with dynamic voltage scaling, the mainstream techn...
Problems in computational finance share many of the characteristics that challenge us in statistical circuit analysis: high dimensionality, profound nonlinearity, stringent accura...