We highlight several fundamental challenges to designing highperformance integrated circuits in nanometer-scale technologies (i.e. drawn feature sizes < 100 nm). Dynamic power ...
Increasing resistivity of copper with scaling and rising demands on current density requirements are driving the need to identify new wiring solutions for deep nanometer scale VLS...
SoC design methodologies are under constant revision due to adoption of fast shrinking process technologies at nanometer levels. Nanometer process geometries exhibit new complex d...
R. Raghavendra Kumar, Ricky Bedi, Ramadas Rajagopa...
As IC process geometries scale down to the nanometer territory, the industry faces severe challenges of manufacturing limitations. To guarantee yield and reliability, physical des...
With shrinking noise margins and increasing numbers of on-chip noise sources, power grid design has become a critical performance determinant. This paper presents an overview of r...