As the process technology enters the nanometer era, reliability has become a major concern in the design and manufacturing of VLSI circuits. In this paper we focus on one reliabil...
Antenna effect may damage gate oxides during plasma-based fabrication process. The antenna ratio of total exposed antenna area to total gate oxide area is directly related to the ...
Double Patterning Lithography (DPL) is one of the few hopeful candidate solutions for the lithography for CMOS process beyond 45nm. DPL assigns the patterns less than a certain di...
In the context of formal verification Bounded Model Checking (BMC) has shown to be very powerful for large industrial designs. BMC is used to check whether a circuit satisfies a...
The problem of diagnosis – or locating the source of an error or fault – occurs in several areas of Computer Aided Design, such as dynamic verification, property checking, eq...