Thermal effects are becoming a limiting factor in highperformance circuit design due to the strong temperaturedependence of leakage power, circuit performance, IC package cost and...
Zhijian Lu, Wei Huang, John Lach, Mircea R. Stan, ...
Abstract-- The operational characteristics of integrated circuits based on nanoscale semiconductor technology are expected to be increasingly affected by variations in the manufact...
—Test application at reduced power supply voltage (low-voltage testing) or reduced temperature (low-temperature testing) can improve the defect coverage of a test set, particular...
Sandip Kundu, Piet Engelke, Ilia Polian, Bernd Bec...
The effects of random variations during the manufacturing process on devices can be simulated as a variation of transistor parameters. Device degradation, due to temperature or vo...
Udo Sobe, Karl-Heinz Rooch, Andreas Ripp, Michael ...
Errors caused by tolerance variations and mismatches among components severely degrade the performance of integrated circuits. These random effects in process parameters significa...
Juan Pablo Martinez Brito, Hamilton Klimach, Sergi...