Abstract--To reduce chip-scale topography variation in Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process, dummy fill is widely used to improve the layout density uniformity. Previous res...
Chunyang Feng, Hai Zhou, Changhao Yan, Jun Tao, Xu...
Post-silicon validation has become an essential step in the design flow of today's complex integrated circuits. One effective technique that provides real-time visibility to ...
The discrepancy between integrated circuits' activities in normal functional mode and that in structural test mode has an increasing adverse impact on the effectiveness of ma...
In recent literature it has been reported that Dynamic Power Management (DPM) may lead to decreased reliability in real-time embedded systems. The ever-shrinking device sizes cont...
Ranjani Sridharan, Nikhil Gupta, Rabi N. Mahapatra
A key problem that arises in System-on-a-Chip (SOC) designs of today is the Chip-level Clock Tree Synthesis (CCTS). CCTS is done by merging all the clock trees belonging to differ...