ISVLSI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
In nanometer regime, the effects of process variations are dominating circuit performance, power and reliability of circuits. Hence, it is important to properly manage variation e...
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper presents the design and evaluation of a new SRAM cell made of nine transistors (9T). The proposed 9T cell utilizes a scheme with separate read and write wordlines; it i...
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
With the scaling down of the CMOS technologies, Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has become a major concern due to its impact on PMOS transistor aging process and the ...
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Phase-based tuning methodologies specialize system parameters for each application phase of execution. Parameters are varied during execution, as opposed to remaining fixed as in ...
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper presents in-order pulsed charge recycling to reduce energy consumption in an off-chip data bus. The proposed technique performs charge recycling by employing three step...
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Due to the large contribution of the memory subsystem to total system power, the memory subsystem is highly amenable to customization for reduced power/energy and/or improved perf...
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) plays a key role in determining performance of the VLSI circuits implemented in state-of-the-art CMOS technology. A pre-requisite for emp...
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Due to the increasing complexity of today’s embedded systems, the analysis and validation of such systems is becoming a major challenge. UML is gradually adopted in the embedded...
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Share of leakage in cache memories is increasing with technology scaling. Studies show that most stored bits in instruction caches are zero, and hence, asymmetric SRAM cells which...