Power-performance constraints have been the key driving force that motivated the
microprocessor industry to bring unique design techniques in the past two decades. The …

Although we may be at the end of Moore's law, lowering chip power consumption is still the
primary driving force for the designers. To enable low-power operation, we propose a …

It appears that the relentless pursuit of Moore's law scaling from one generation of process
technology to the next increases circuit vulnerability to single-event transient (SET)-induced …

As the demand for high-performance microprocessors increases, the circuit complexity and
the rate of data transfer increases resulting in higher power consumption. We propose a …

Abstract Background/Objectives: Density, performance, and design complexity of integrated
circuits are rapidly increasing specifically in 3-D integration where multi-plane …

In this paper, we investigate several on-chip signaling schemes. Specifically, we compare
different voltage-mode (VM) and current-mode (CM) signaling schemes considering power …

In nano-scale CMOS technologies, storage cells such as flip-flops are becoming
increasingly sensitive to soft errors caused by harsh radiation effects. This paper proposes a …