— Increasingly prominent variational effects impose imminent threat to the progress of VLSI technology. This work explores redundancy, which is a well-known fault tolerance techn...
Di Wu, Ganesh Venkataraman, Jiang Hu, Quiyang Li, ...
A methodology for reducing ground bounce in typical microprocessors and image processing architectures has been described. As we approach Gigascale Integration, chip power consump...
Mondira Deb Pant, Pankaj Pant, D. Scott Wills, Viv...
The path-delay fault simulation of functional tests on complex circuits such as current processor-based systems is a daunting task. The amount of computing power and memory needed...
Paolo Bernardi, Michelangelo Grosso, Matteo Sonza ...
With technology scaling down to 90nm and below, many yield-driven design and optimization methodologies have been proposed to cope with the prominent process variation and to incr...
Fang Gong, Hao Yu, Yiyu Shi, Daesoo Kim, Junyan Re...
The miniaturization of transistors in recent technology nodes requires tremendous back-end tuning and optimizations, making bug fixing at later design stages more expensive. Ther...