This paper shows that the evolutionary design of digital circuits which is conducted at the gate level is able to produce human-competitive circuits at the transistor level. In ad...
A 3D circuit is the stacking of regular 2D circuits. The advances on the fabrication and packaging technologies allowed interconnecting stacked 2D circuits by using 3D vias. Howeve...
Sandro Sawicki, Gustavo Wilke, Marcelo O. Johann, ...
Interconnect has become the dominating factor in determining circuit performance and reliability in deep submicron designs. In this embedded tutorial, we first discuss the trends...
Jason Cong, David Zhigang Pan, Lei He, Cheng-Kok K...
Clock skew scheduling has been traditionally considered as a tool for improving the clock period in a sequential circuit. Timing slack is "stolen" from fast combinationa...
—1As technology scales, the aging effect caused by Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has become a major reliability concern for circuit designers. On the other hand, r...
Yu Wang 0002, Xiaoming Chen, Wenping Wang, Yu Cao,...