As technology continues to scale beyond 100nm, there is a significant increase in performance uncertainty of CMOS logic due to process and environmental variations. Traditional c...
Dinesh Patil, Sunghee Yun, Seung-Jean Kim, Alvin C...
This paper derives a methodology for developing accurate convex delay models to be used for transistor sizing. A new rich class of convex functions to model gate delay is presente...
Mahesh Ketkar, Kishore Kasamsetty, Sachin S. Sapat...
— The inductance and coupling effects in interconnects and non-linear receiver loads has resulted in complex input signals and output loads for gates in the modern deep submicron...
This paper presents a methodology for accurate propagation of delay information through a gate for the purpose of static timing analysis (STA) in the presence of noise. Convention...
Shahin Nazarian, Massoud Pedram, Emre Tuncer, Tao ...
Recent algorithmic advances in Boolean satisfiability (SAT), along with highly efficient solver implementations, have enabled the successful deployment of SAT technology in a wi...