ICCAD
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
Battery-powered wireless sensors are severely constrained by the amount of the available energy. A method for computing the energy budget per sensing task can be a valuable design...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
In the past, processor design trends were dominated by increasingly complex feature sets, higher clock speeds, growing thermal envelopes and increasing power dissipation. Recently...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
Reliable prediction of parametric yield for a specific design is difficult; a significant reason is the reliance of the yield estimation methods on the hard-to-measure distributio...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
Meeting timing constraint is one of the most important issues for modern design automation tools. This situation is exacerbated with the existence of process variation. Current hi...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
Adaptive body biasing (ABB) is a powerful technique that allows post-silicon tuning of individual manufactured dies such that each die optimally meets the delay and power constrai...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
— Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) in PMOS transistors has become a significant reliability concern in present day digital circuit design. With continued scaling, th...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
Yield and variability are becoming detractors for successful design in sub-90-nm process technologies. We consider the fundamental lithography and process issues that are driving ...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
We present a novel incremental placement methodology called FlowPlace for significantly reducing critical path delays of placed standard-cell circuits. FlowPlace includes: a) a t...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
Stalls, due to mis-matches in communication rates, are a major performance obstacle in pipelined circuits. If the rate of data production is faster than the rate of consumption, t...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
Temperature monitoring using thermal sensors is an essential tool for evaluating the thermal behavior and sustaining the reliable operation in high-performance and high-power syst...