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2010
ACM
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Skew management of NBTI impacted gated clock trees
NBTI (Negative Bias Temperature Instability) has emerged as the dominant failure mechanism for PMOS in nanometer IC designs. However, its impact on one of the most important compo...
Ashutosh Chakraborty, David Z. Pan
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Analysis and optimization of NBTI induced clock skew in gated clock trees
NBTI (Negative Bias Temperature Instability) has emerged as the dominant PMOS device failure mechanism for sub100nm VLSI designs. There is little research to quantify its impact o...
Ashutosh Chakraborty, Gokul Ganesan, Anand Rajaram...
DATE
2006
IEEE
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Thermal resilient bounded-skew clock tree optimization methodology
The existence of non-uniform thermal gradients on the substrate in high performance IC’s can significantly impact the performance of global on-chip interconnects. This issue is...
Ashutosh Chakraborty, Prassanna Sithambaram, Karth...