— Variability in the chip design process has been relatively increasing with technology scaling to smaller dimensions. Using worst case analysis for circuit optimization severely...
—Test application at reduced power supply voltage (low-voltage testing) or reduced temperature (low-temperature testing) can improve the defect coverage of a test set, particular...
Sandip Kundu, Piet Engelke, Ilia Polian, Bernd Bec...
Typical placement objectives involve reducing net-cut cost or minimizing wirelength. Congestion minimization is least understood, however, it models routability accurately. In thi...
The high unit cost of FPGA devices often deters their use beyond the prototyping stage. Efforts have been made to reduce the part-cost of FPGA devices, resulting in the developmen...
Nicola Campregher, Peter Y. K. Cheung, George A. C...
Operating frequency of a pipelined circuit is determined by the delay of the slowest pipeline stage. However, under statistical delay variation in sub-100nm technology regime, the...