Enabled by the continuous advancement in fabrication technology, present day synchronous microprocessors include more than 100 million transistors and have clock speeds well in ex...
Statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) is emerging as a solution for predicting the timing characteristics of digital circuits under process variability. For computing the stat...
Kaviraj Chopra, Bo Zhai, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylv...
With the current trend in integration of more complex systems on chip there is a need for better communication infrastructure on chip that will increase the available bandwidth an...
This paper presents a novel approach to reducing the complexity of the transient linear circuit analysis for a hybrid structured clock network. Topology reduction is first used to...
Yi Zou, Yici Cai, Qiang Zhou, Xianlong Hong, Sheld...
Noise affects circuit operation by increasing gate delays and causing latches to capture incorrect values. Noise analysis techniques can detect some of such noise faults, but accu...
Yajun Ran, Alex Kondratyev, Yosinori Watanabe, Mal...