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DAC
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Variation-aware analysis: savior of the nanometer era?
VLSI engineers have traditionally used a variety of CAD analysis tools (e.g. SPICE) to deal with variability. As we go into deep sub micron issues, the analysis is becoming harder...
Sani R. Nassif, Vijay Pitchumani, N. Rodriguez, De...
DAC
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Modeling and minimization of PMOS NBTI effect for robust nanometer design
Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) has become the dominant reliability concern for nanoscale PMOS transistors. In this paper, a predictive model is developed for the deg...
Rakesh Vattikonda, Wenping Wang, Yu Cao
DATE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 2 hour ago
On linewidth-based yield analysis for nanometer lithography
— Lithographic variability and its impact on printability is a major concern in today’s semiconductor manufacturing process. To address sub-wavelength printability, a number of...
Aswin Sreedhar, Sandip Kundu
DATE
2005
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Modeling and Analysis of Loading Effect in Leakage of Nano-Scaled Bulk-CMOS Logic Circuits
In nanometer scaled CMOS devices significant increase in the subthreshold, the gate and the reverse biased junction band-toband-tunneling (BTBT) leakage, results in the large incr...
Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Swarup Bhunia, Kaushik Roy
CODES
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Yield prediction for architecture exploration in nanometer technology nodes: : a model and case study for memory organizations
Process variability has a detrimental impact on the performance of memories and other system components, which can lead to parametric yield loss at the system level due to timing ...
Antonis Papanikolaou, T. Grabner, Miguel Miranda, ...