Statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) plays a key role in determining performance of the VLSI circuits implemented in state-of-the-art CMOS technology. A pre-requisite for emp...
Abstract-- The operational characteristics of integrated circuits based on nanoscale semiconductor technology are expected to be increasingly affected by variations in the manufact...
Abstract: This paper presents a new statistical methodology to simulate the effect of both inter-die and intra-die variation on the electrical performance of analog integrated circ...
Carlo Guardiani, Sharad Saxena, Patrick McNamara, ...
Process variability has a detrimental impact on the performance of memories and other system components, which can lead to parametric yield loss at the system level due to timing ...
Antonis Papanikolaou, T. Grabner, Miguel Miranda, ...
Manufacturing processes are a key source of faults in complex hardware systems. Minimizing this impact of manufacturing uncertainties is one way towards achieving fault tolerant s...