DAC
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
Unknown values (Xs) may exist in a design due to uninitialized registers or blocks that are powered down. Due to X-pessimism in gate-level logic simulation, such Xs cannot be hand...
VLSID
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has been identified as a major and critical reliability issue for PMOS devices in nano-scale designs. It manifests as a negative thres...