— With continued scaling, reliability is emerging as a critical challenge for the designers of digital circuits. The challenge stems in part from the lack of computationally ef...
— As technology scales into the sub-90nm domain, manufacturing variations become an increasingly significant portion of circuit delay. As a result, delays must be modeled as sta...
Matthew R. Guthaus, Natesan Venkateswaran, Chandu ...
The relentless push for high performance in custom digital circuits has led to renewed emphasis on circuit optimization or tuning. The parameters of the optimization are typically...
The circuit tuning problem is best approached by means of gradient-based nonlinear optimization algorithms. For large circuits, gradient computation can be the bottleneck in the o...
Andrew R. Conn, Ruud A. Haring, Chandramouli Viswe...
VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) technology is the main driver of our digital revolution. The goals of these lecture are to learn ...