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2006
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2006
IEEE
— A methodology is proposed for interdependent setup time and hold time characterization of sequential circuits. Integrating the methodology into an industrial sign-off static ti...
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2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
As a result of aggressive technology scaling, gate leakage (gate oxide direct tunneling) has become a major component of total power dissipation. Use of dielectrics of higher perm...
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2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
It is well known that SRAM constitutes a large portion of modern integrated circuits, with 80% or more of the total transistors being dedicated to SRAM in a typical processor or S...
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2006
IEEE
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2006
IEEE
— Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has the potential to become one of the main show-stoppers of circuit reliability in nanometer scale devices due to its deleterious ...
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2006
IEEE
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2006
IEEE
— In this paper, we propose an efficient model order reduction (MOR) algorithm, called MTermMOR, for modeling interconnect circuits with large number of external ports. The prop...
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2006
IEEE
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2006
IEEE
- A low overhead circuit technique is proposed in this paper for simultaneously reducing subthreshold and gate oxide leakage currents in domino logic circuits. PMOS sleep transisto...
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2006
IEEE
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2006
IEEE
— A new low voltage swing circuit technique based on a dual threshold voltage CMOS technology is presented in this paper for simultaneously reducing active and standby mode power...
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2006
IEEE
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2006
IEEE
System on Chip architectures have traditionally relied upon bus based interconnect for their communication needs. However, increasing bus frequencies and the load on the bus calls...
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2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
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2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
It is well known that fill insertion adversely affects total and coupling capacitance of interconnects. While grounded fill can be extracted by full-chip extractors, floating ...