It has been widely recognized that the dynamic range information of an application can be exploited to reduce the datapath bitwidth of either processors or ASICs, and therefore th...
Device optimization considering supply voltage Vdd and threshold voltage Vt tuning does not increase chip area but has a great impact on power and performance in the nanometer tec...
Lerong Cheng, Phoebe Wong, Fei Li, Yan Lin, Lei He
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
High power consumption will shorten battery life for handheld devices and cause thermal and reliability problems. One way to lower the dynamic power consumption is to reduce the s...
Royce L. S. Ching, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Kevin C...
In the nanometer IC design, dummy fill is often performed to improve layout pattern uniformity and the post-CMP quality. However, filling dummies might greatly increase intercon...