Abstract—Analysis and verification environments for nextgeneration nano-scale RFIC designs must be able to cope with increasing design complexity and to account for new effects,...
Jorge Fernandez Villena, Wil H. A. Schilders, L. M...
Chip design in the nanometer regime is becoming increasingly difficult due to process variations. ASIC designers have adopted statistical optimization techniques to mitigate the e...
Process variations will greatly impact the stability, leakage power consumption, and performance of future microprocessors. These variations are especially detrimental to 6T SRAM ...
Xiaoyao Liang, Ramon Canal, Gu-Yeon Wei, David Bro...
As technology scales, more sophisticated fabrication processes cause variations in many different parameters in the device. These variations could severely affect the performance ...
In nanometer regime, the effects of variations are having an increasing impact on the delay and power characteristics of devices as well as the yield of the circuit. Statistical t...
—Component tolerances and mismatches due to process variations severely degrade the performance of bandgap reference (BGR) circuits. In this paper, we describe the design of a BG...
Juan Pablo Martinez Brito, Sergio Bampi, Hamilton ...
— A receiving signal strength indicator (RSSI) built with transconductance amplifiers is presented. The RSSI achieves high tolerance to process variations by utilizing the unique...
— In a nanoscale technology, memory bits are highly susceptible to process variation induced read/write failures. To address the above problem, in this paper a new memory cell is...
Jawar Singh, Jimson Mathew, Saraju P. Mohanty, Dhi...
Process variations are poised to significantly degrade performance benefits sought by moving to the next nanoscale technology node. Parameter fluctuations in devices can introd...
— As technology scales to 45nm and below, process variations will present significant impact on path delay. This trend makes the deviation between simulated path delay and actua...
Xiaoxiao Wang, Mohammad Tehranipoor, Ramyanshu Dat...