Antenna effect may damage gate oxides during plasma-based fabrication process. The antenna ratio of total exposed antenna area to total gate oxide area is directly related to the ...
Chips manufactured in 90 nm technology have shown large parametric variations, and a worsening trend is predicted. These parametric variations make circuit optimization difficult ...
Jinjun Xiong, Vladimir Zolotov, Natesan Venkateswa...
Optical proximity correction (OPC) is one of the most widely used resolution enhancement techniques (RET) in nanometer designs to improve subwavelength printability. Conventional ...
SAT sweeping is a method for simplifying an AND/INVERTER graph (AIG) by systematically merging graph vertices from the inputs towards the outputs using a combination of structural...
Qi Zhu, Nathan Kitchen, Andreas Kuehlmann, Alberto...
Droplet-based microfluidic biochips have recently gained much attention and are expected to revolutionize the biological laboratory procedure. As biochips are adopted for the comp...