A Nieuwoudt, Y Massoud - IEEE transactions on electron …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we develop comprehensive modeling and design techniques for carbon nanotube (CNT)-based interconnects, which we utilize to examine the performance …
Q Guo, X Guo, Y Bai, E Ipek - Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/ACM …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Power dissipation and off-chip bandwidth restrictions are critical challenges that limit microprocessor performance. Ternary content addressable memories (TCAM) hold the …
Design for Manufacturability and Yield for Nano-Scale CMOS walks the reader through all the aspects of manufacturability and yield in a nano-CMOS process and how to address …
With the advance of semiconductors and ubiquitous computing, the use of system-on-a-chip (SoC) has become an essential technique to reduce product cost. With this progress and …
HY Chen, YW Chang - Electronic Design Automation, 2009 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on routing, a process that determines the precise paths for nets on the chip layout to interconnect the pins on the circuit blocks or pads at the …
HY Chen, SJ Chou, SL Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As nanometer technology advances, the post chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) topography variation control becomes crucial for manufacturing closure. To improve the …
S Sinha, J Luo, C Chiang - 2007 Asia and South Pacific Design …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thickness range, ie the difference between the highest point and the lowest point of the chip surface, is a key indicator of chip yield. This paper presents a novel metal filling algorithm …
A Nieuwoudt, J Kawa… - IEEE transactions on very …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the crosstalk-induced delay, noise, and chemical mechanical polishing (CMP)-induced thickness-variation implications of dummy fill generated using rule …
Z Chen, J Cai, C Yan, Z Bi, Y Ma, B Yu… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dummy filling is widely applied to significantly improve the planarity of topographic patterns for the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process in VLSI manufacturing. In the dummy …