Nanometer circuits are becoming increasingly susceptible to soft-errors due to alpha-particle and atmospheric neutron strikes as device scaling reduces node capacitances and suppl...
ct Cross-coupled noise analysis has become a critical concern in today's VLSI designs. Typically, noise analysis makes an assumption that all aggressing nets can simultaneousl...
Alexey Glebov, Sergey Gavrilov, David Blaauw, Vlad...
— A new low voltage swing circuit technique based on a dual threshold voltage CMOS technology is presented in this paper for simultaneously reducing active and standby mode power...
Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) in MOSFETs is one of the major reliability challenges in nano-scale technology. This paper presents an efficient technique to characte...
Kunhyuk Kang, Kee-Jong Kim, Ahmad E. Islam, Muhamm...
Interconnect-driven optimization is an increasingly important step in high-performance design. Algorithms for buffer insertion have been successfully utilized to reduce delay in gl...
Charles J. Alpert, Anirudh Devgan, Stephen T. Quay