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ICCAD
2008
IEEE
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15 years 6 months ago
Practical, fast Monte Carlo statistical static timing analysis: why and how
Statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) has emerged as an essential tool for nanoscale designs. Monte Carlo methods are universally employed to validate the accuracy of the appr...
Amith Singhee, Sonia Singhal, Rob A. Rutenbar
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DAC
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Worst-case circuit delay taking into account power supply variations
Current Static Timing Analysis (STA) techniques allow one to verify the timing of a circuit at different process corners which only consider cases where all the supplies are low o...
Dionysios Kouroussis, Rubil Ahmadi, Farid N. Najm
TCAD
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Early Analysis and Budgeting of Margins and Corners Using Two-Sided Analytical Yield Models
Manufacturing process variations lead to variability in circuit delay and, if not accounted for, can cause excessive timing yield loss. The familiar traditional approaches to timin...
Khaled R. Heloue, Farid N. Najm
DATE
2008
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Signal Probability Based Statistical Timing Analysis
VLSI timing analysis and power estimation target the same circuit switching activity. Power estimation techniques are categorized as (1) static, (2) statistical, and (3) simulatio...
Bao Liu