Run-time conflicts can affect even the most rigorously tested software systems. A reliance on execution-based testing makes it prohibitively costly to test every possible interac...
Michael F. Spear, Tom Roeder, Orion Hodson, Galen ...
Technology trends are driving parallel on-chip architectures in the form of multi-processor systems-on-a-chip (MPSoCs) and chip multi-processors (CMPs). In these systems the incre...
Vassos Soteriou, Noel Eisley, Hangsheng Wang, Bin ...
Parametric yield loss due to variability can be effectively reduced by both design-time optimization strategies and by adjusting circuit parameters to the realizations of variable...
Murari Mani, Ashish Kumar Singh, Michael Orshansky
In order to handle device matching in analog circuits, some pairs of modules are required to be placed symmetrically. This paper addresses this device-level placement problem for ...
Yiu-Cheong Tam, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Chris C. N...
Process variations in modern VLSI technologies are growing in both magnitude and dimensionality. To assess performance variability, complex simulation and performance models param...