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ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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13 years 1 months ago
Decoupling capacitance efficient placement for reducing transient power supply noise
Decoupling capacitance (decap) is an efficient way to reduce transient noise in on-chip power supply networks. However, excessive decap may cause more leakage power, chip resource...
Xiaoyi Wang, Yici Cai, Qiang Zhou, Sheldon X.-D. T...
ISQED
2010
IEEE
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13 years 1 months ago
Analysis of power supply induced jitter in actively de-skewed multi-core systems
This paper studies multi-core clock distribution using active deskewing methods. We propose an efficient methodology that uses Verilog-A to model PLLs, clock trees and power suppl...
Derek Chan, Matthew R. Guthaus
WCE
2007
13 years 4 months ago
Experimental Study on Lightning Characteristics of Electronic Equipment's Power Supply
—Lightning protection for power supply of electronic equipment is an important problem of low-voltage lightning protection systems. In this paper, lightning characteristics of el...
Chai Yajing, Zhou Wenjun, He Ruidong, Zhao Luxing
ASPDAC
2001
ACM
75views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2001»
13 years 7 months ago
Integrated power supply planning and floorplanning
One of the most challenging issues in today's high-performance VLSI design is to ensure high-quality power supply to each individual circuit blocks. Reduced power supply volt...
I-Min Liu, Hung-Ming Chen, Tan-Li Chou, Adnan Aziz...
ITC
1989
IEEE
82views Hardware» more  ITC 1989»
13 years 7 months ago
CMOS IC Stuck-Open Fault Electrical Effects and Design Considerations
- The electrical effects of CMOS IC physical defects that caused stuck-openfaults are evaluated, including their voltage levels, quiescent power supply current (IDDQ), transient re...
Jerry M. Soden, R. Keith Treece, Michael R. Taylor...
ASPDAC
2000
ACM
80views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2000»
13 years 8 months ago
An interleaved dual-battery power supply for battery-operated electronics
 After a detailed analysis and discussion of two important characteristics of today’s battery cells (i.e., their current-capacity and current-voltage curves), this paper descr...
Qing Wu, Qinru Qiu, Massoud Pedram
DATE
2000
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
A Discrete-Time Battery Model for High-Level Power Estimation
In this paper, we introduce a discrete-time model for the complete power supply sub-system that closely approximates the behavior of its circuit-level (i.e., HSpice), continuous-t...
Luca Benini, Giuliano Castelli, Alberto Macii, Enr...
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
159views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2009»
13 years 8 months ago
Congestion-aware power grid optimization for 3D circuits using MIM and CMOS decoupling capacitors
— In three-dimensional (3D) chips, the amount of supply current per package pin is significantly more than in two-dimensional (2D) designs. Therefore, the power supply noise pro...
Pingqiang Zhou, Karthikk Sridharan, Sachin S. Sapa...
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
195views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Vectorless Analysis of Supply Noise Induced Delay Variation
The impact of power supply integrity on a design has become a critical issue, not only for functional verification, but also for performance verification. Traditional analysis has...
Sanjay Pant, David Blaauw, Vladimir Zolotov, Savit...
ISQED
2005
IEEE
78views Hardware» more  ISQED 2005»
13 years 9 months ago
Noise Aware Decoupling Capacitors for Multi-Voltage Power Distribution Systems
— Multiple power supply voltages are often used in modern high performance ICs such as microprocessors to decrease power consumption without affecting circuit speed. The system o...
Mikhail Popovich, Eby G. Friedman