An effective method for focusing optimization effort on the most important parts of a design is to examine those elements on the critical path. Traditionally, the critical path is...
Girish Venkataramani, Mihai Budiu, Tiberiu Chelcea...
Ever-increasing integrated circuit (IC) power densities and peak temperatures threaten reliability, performance, and economical cooling. To address these challenges, thermal analy...
— Accurate estimation of worst-case crosstalk effects is critical for a realistic estimation of the worst-case behavior of deep sub-micron circuits. Crosstalk analysis models usu...
Murthy Palla, Klaus Koch, Jens Bargfrede, Manfred ...
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...
—Variations of process parameters have an important impact on reliability and yield in deep sub micron IC technologies. One methodology to estimate the influence of these effects...