Aggressive design cycles in the semiconductor industry demand a design-reuse principle for analog circuits. The strong impact of layout intricacies on analog circuit performance n...
Sambuddha Bhattacharya, Nuttorn Jangkrajarng, Roy ...
Gate oxide tunneling current (Igate) is emerging as a key roadblock for device scaling in nanometer-scale CMOS circuits. A practical means to reduce Igate is to leverage dual Tox ...
Anup Kumar Sultania, Dennis Sylvester, Sachin S. S...
New technologies such as 3D integration are becoming a new force that is keeping Moore’s law in effect in today’s nano era. By adding a third dimension in current 2D circuits...
Variability of circuit performance is becoming a very important issue for ultra-deep sub-micron technology. Gate length variation has the most direct impact on circuit performance...
In this paper, we present novel algorithms that effectively combine physical layout and early logic synthesis to improve overall design quality. In addition, we employ partitionin...