Semiconductor design companies are in a continuous search for design tools that address the ever increasing chip design complexity coupled with strict time-to-market schedules and...
Traditional corner analysis fails to guarantee a target yield for a given performance metric. However, recently proposed solutions, in the form of statistical timing analysis, whi...
Sleep transistors are effective to reduce dynamic and leakage power. The cluster-based design was proposed to reduce the sleep transistor area by clustering gates to minimize the ...
Processors have traditionally been designed for the worst-case, resulting in designs that have high yields, but are expensive in terms of area and power. Better-than-worst-case (B...
Escalating variations in modern CMOS designs have become a threat to Moore’s law. While previous works have proposed techniques for tolerating variations by trading reliability ...