Resolution enhancement techniques (RET) such as optical proximity correction (OPC) and phase-shift mask (PSM) technology are deployed in modern processes to increase the fidelity ...
Luigi Capodieci, Puneet Gupta, Andrew B. Kahng, De...
As VLSI technology scales toward 65nm and beyond, both timing and power performance of integrated circuits are increasingly affected by process variations. In practice, people oft...
Three-dimensional integrated circuits (3DICs) have the potential to reduce interconnect lengths and improve digital system performance. However, heat removal is more difficult in ...
Hao Hua, Christopher Mineo, Kory Schoenfliess, Amb...
This paper introduces a new algorithm, Q2, foroptimizingthe expected output ofamultiinput noisy continuous function. Q2 is designed to need only a few experiments, it avoids stron...
Andrew W. Moore, Jeff G. Schneider, Justin A. Boya...
Program specifications are important in many phases of the software development process, but they are often omitted or incomplete. An important class of specifications takes the f...