In this paper, we give an overview of the trade-off to improve yield and optimize silicon manufacturing cost. The specific technology focus is on large embedded memories in comple...
In modern SoCs, embedded memories occupy the largest part of the chip area and include an even larger amount of active devices. As memories are designed very tightly to the limits...
Michael Nicolaidis, Nadir Achouri, Slimane Boutobz...
An efficient on-chip infrastructure for memory test and repair is crucial to enhance yield and availability of SoCs. Therefore embedded memories are commonly equipped with spare r...
Voltage scaling is one of the most effective mechanisms to reduce microprocessor power consumption. However, the increased severity of manufacturing-induced parameter variations a...
Zeshan Chishti, Alaa R. Alameldeen, Chris Wilkerso...
In deep sub-micron ICs, growing amounts of ondie memory and scaling effects make embedded memories increasingly vulnerable to reliability and yield problems. As scaling progresses...
Jangwoo Kim, Nikos Hardavellas, Ken Mai, Babak Fal...