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DFT
1999
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Yield Estimation of VLSI Circuits with Downscaled Layouts
This paper describes the yield estimation approach to layout scaling of submicron VLSI circuits. The presented method makes it feasible to find scaling factor of the IC design whi...
Witold A. Pleskacz
DFT
2004
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Reliability and Yield: A Joint Defect-Oriented Approach
We present a model for computing the probability of a parametric failure due to a spot defect. The analysis is based on electromigration in conductors under unidirectional current...
Roman Barsky, Israel A. Wagner
VLSID
2002
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Timing Yield Calculation Using an Impulse-Train Approach
This paper presents a new method to compute the probability distribution of the delay of a combinational circuit and uses it obtain an estimate of the yield of the process that ma...
Srinath R. Naidu
CDES
2006
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13 years 6 months ago
An Algorithm for Yield Improvement via Local Positioning and Resizing
The ability to improve the yield of integrated circuits through layout modification has been recognized and several techniques for yield enhanced routing and compaction have been ...
Vazgen Karapetyan
ISPD
2000
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Critical area computation for missing material defects in VLSI circuits
We address the problem of computing critical area for missing material defects in a circuit layout. The extraction of critical area is the main computational problem in VLSI yield...
Evanthia Papadopoulou