TCAD
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
As CMOS technology is scaled down toward the nanoscale regime, drastically growing leakage currents and variations in device characteristics are becoming two important design chall...
ISLPED
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
We present a novel temperature/leakage sensor, developed for high-speed, low-power, monitoring of processors and complex VLSI chips. The innovative idea is the use of 4T SRAM cell...
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Leakage current has become a stringent constraint in today’s processor designs in addition to traditional constraints on frequency. Since leakage current exhibits a strong inver...
ISCAS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
— Scaling of CMOS technologies has led to dramatic increase in sub-threshold, gate and reverse biased junction band-to-band-tunneling (BTBT) leakage. Leakage current has now beco...