DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
With aggressive technology scaling, SRAM design has been seriously challenged by the difficulties in analyzing rare failure events. In this paper we propose to create statistical ...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
State elements are increasingly vulnerable to soft errors due to their decreasing size, and the fact that latched errors cannot be completely eliminated by electrical or timing ma...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Circuit reliability is affected by various fabrication-time and run-time effects. Fabrication-induced process variation has significant impact on circuit performance and reliabilit...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Abstract--To reduce chip-scale topography variation in Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process, dummy fill is widely used to improve the layout density uniformity. Previous res...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Logic simulation is a critical component of the design tool flow in modern hardware development efforts. It is used widely ? from high-level descriptions down to gate-level ones ?...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solvers are used heavily in hardware and software verification tools for checking satisfiability of Boolean formulas. Most state-of-the-art SAT solver...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D ICs) offer a promising solution to overcome the on-chip communication bottleneck and improve performance over traditional two-dimensional...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
With the thermal effect, improper analog placements may degrade circuit performance because the thermal impact from power devices can affect electrical characteristics of the ther...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Efficient system-level design is increasingly relying on hierarchical design-space exploration, as well as compositional methods, to shorten time-to-market, leverage design re-use...