In this paper we propose a RObust Analog Design tool (ROAD) for post-tuning analog/RF circuits. Starting from an initial design derived from hand analysis or analog circuit synthe...
Xin Li, Padmini Gopalakrishnan, Yang Xu, Lawrence ...
Large-scale process fluctuations in nano-scale IC technologies suggest applying high-order (e.g., quadratic) response surface models to capture the circuit performance variations....
Xin Li, Jiayong Le, Lawrence T. Pileggi, Andrzej J...
Elmore delay has been widely used as an analytical estimate of interconnect delays in the performance-driven synthesis and layout of VLSI routing topologies. However,for typical R...
— In today’s complex SoC designs, verification and debugging are becoming ever more crucial and increasingly timeconsuming tasks. The prevalence of embedded memories adds to t...
Brian Keng, Hratch Mangassarian, Andreas G. Veneri...
— Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) in PMOS transistors has become a significant reliability concern in present day digital circuit design. With continued scaling, th...
Sanjay V. Kumar, Chris H. Kim, Sachin S. Sapatneka...