Thermal gradients across the die are becoming increasingly prominent as we scale further down into the sub-nanometer regime. While temperature was never a primary concern, its non...
Abstract-- The operational characteristics of integrated circuits based on nanoscale semiconductor technology are expected to be increasingly affected by variations in the manufact...
In deep submicron circuits, elevation in temperatures has brought new challenges in reliability, timing, performance, cooling costs and leakage power. Conventional thermal managem...
On-chip caches take a large portion of the chip area. They are much more vulnerable to parameter variation than smaller units. As leakage current becomes a significant component ...
Wei Wu, Sheldon X.-D. Tan, Jun Yang 0002, Shih-Lie...
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...