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ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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Fast Buffered Delay Estimation Considering Process Variations
- Advanced process technologies impose more significant challenges especially when manufactured circuits exhibit substantial process variations. Consideration of process variations...
Tien-Ting Fang, Ting-Chi Wang
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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A New Methodology for Interconnect Parasitics Extraction Considering Photo-Lithography Effects
Abstract-- Due to photo-lithography effects and manufacture process variations, the actual features fabricated on the wafer are different from the designed ones. This difference ca...
Ying Zhou, Zhuo Li, Yuxin Tian, Weiping Shi, Frank...
DFT
1998
IEEE
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Process Variations and their Impact on Circuit Operation
The statistical variations in electrical parameters, such as transistor gain factors and interconnect resistances, due to variations in the manufacturing process are studied using...
Suriyaprakash Natarajan, Melvin A. Breuer, Sandeep...
ISQED
2002
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Impact Analysis of Process Variability on Clock Skew
This paper presents a methodology for the statistical analysis of clock tree structures. It allows to accurately predict and analyze the impact of process variation on clock skew....
Enrico Malavasi, Stefano Zanella, Min Cao, Julian ...
DATE
2010
IEEE
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Circuit propagation delay estimation through multivariate regression-based modeling under spatio-temporal variability
—With every process generation, the problem of variability in physical parameters and environmental conditions poses a great challenge to the design of fast and reliable circuits...
Shrikanth Ganapathy, Ramon Canal, Antonio Gonz&aac...
ATS
2003
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Analyzing the Impact of Process Variations on DRAM Testing Using Border Resistance Traces
Abstract: As a result of variations in the fabrication process, different memory components are produced with different operational characteristics, a situation that complicates th...
Zaid Al-Ars, A. J. van de Goor
ISLPED
2006
ACM
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Considering process variations during system-level power analysis
Process variations will increasingly impact the operational characteristics of integrated circuits in nanoscale semiconductor technologies. Researchers have proposed various desig...
Saumya Chandra, Kanishka Lahiri, Anand Raghunathan...
ASPDAC
2006
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Mathematically assisted adaptive body bias (ABB) for temperature compensation in gigascale LSI systems
— Process variations and temperature variations can cause both the frequency and the leakage of the chip to vary significantly from their expected values, thereby decreasing the...
Sanjay V. Kumar, Chris H. Kim, Sachin S. Sapatneka...
GLVLSI
2006
IEEE
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Measurement and characterization of pattern dependent process variations of interconnect resistance, capacitance and inductance
Process variations have become a serious concern for nanometer technologies. The interconnect and device variations include interand intra-die variations of geometries, as well as...
Xiaoning Qi, Alex Gyure, Yansheng Luo, Sam C. Lo, ...
GLVLSI
2006
IEEE
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Crosstalk analysis in nanometer technologies
Process variations have become a key concern of circuit designers because of their significant, yet hard to predict impact on performance and signal integrity of VLSI circuits. St...
Shahin Nazarian, Ali Iranli, Massoud Pedram