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2006
IEEE
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A practical method to estimate interconnect responses to variabilities
Variabilities in metal interconnect structures can affect circuit timing performance or even cause function failure in VLSI designs. This paper proposes a method to estimate the ...
Frank Liu
SLIP
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Fast estimation of the partitioning rent characteristic using a recursive partitioning model
In the past, a priori interconnect prediction, based on Rent’s rule, has been applied mainly for technology evaluation and roadmap applications. These applications do not requir...
Joni Dambre, Dirk Stroobandt, Jan Van Campenhout
ISQED
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Challenges in Evaluations for a Typical-Case Design Methodology
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 ...
Yuji Kunitake, Akihiro Chiyonobu, Koichiro Tanaka,...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
On the role of timing masking in reliable logic circuit design
Soft errors, once only of concern in memories, are beginning to affect logic as well. Determining the soft error rate (SER) of a combinational circuit involves three main masking ...
Smita Krishnaswamy, Igor L. Markov, John P. Hayes
DAC
2002
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Petri net modeling of gate and interconnect delays for power estimation
In this paper, a new type of Petri net called Hierarchical Colored Hardware Petri net, to model real-delay switching activity for power estimation is proposed. The logic circuit i...
Ashok K. Murugavel, N. Ranganathan