[HTML][HTML] Progress in nanoscale dry processes for fabrication of high-aspect-ratio features: How can we control critical dimension uniformity at the bottom?

K Ishikawa, K Karahashi, T Ishijima… - Japanese Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review, we discuss the progress of emerging dry processes for nanoscale fabrication
of high-aspect-ratio features, including emerging design technology for manufacturability …

Statistical static timing analysis: A survey

C Forzan, D Pandini - Integration, 2009 - Elsevier
As the device and interconnect physical dimensions decrease steadily in modern nanometer
silicon technologies, the ability to control the process and environmental variations is …

Parameter variation tolerance and error resiliency: New design paradigm for the nanoscale era

S Ghosh, K Roy - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Variations in process parameters affect the operation of integrated circuits (ICs) and pose a
significant threat to the continued scaling of transistor dimensions. Such parameter …

Aging analysis of circuit timing considering NBTI and HCI

D Lorenz, G Georgakos… - 2009 15th IEEE …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an aging analysis flow able to calculate the degraded circuit timing. To the best
of our knowledge it is the first approach on gate level so far capable of analyzing the impact …

Elastic circuits

J Carmona, J Cortadella… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Elasticity in circuits and systems provides tolerance to variations in computation and
communication delays. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of elastic circuits for …

Generating variation-aware library data with efficient device mismatch characterization

J Liu, FP Taraporevala - US Patent 8,204,730, 2012 - Google Patents
In a method of generating variation-aware library data for statistical static timing analysis
(SSTA), a “synthetic” Gaussian variable can be used to represent all instances of one or …

Trinity:{High-Performance} Mobile Emulation through Graphics Projection

D Gao, H Lin, Z Li, C Huang, Y Liu, F Qian… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2022 - usenix.org
Mobile emulation, which creates full-fledged software mobile devices on a physical
PC/server, is pivotal to the mobile ecosystem, especially for PC-based mobile gaming, app …

A 0.4-V 0.66-fJ/cycle retentive true-single-phase-clock 18T flip-flop in 28-nm fully-depleted SOI CMOS

F Stas, D Bol - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose an 18-transistor true-single-phase-clock (TSPC) flip-flop (FF) with
static data retention based on two forward-conditional feedback loops, without increasing …

Aging analysis at gate and macro cell level

D Lorenz, M Barke… - 2010 IEEE/ACM …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aging, which can be regarded as a time-dependent variability, has until recently not
received much attention in the field of electronic design automation. This is changing …

Reliability challenges for electric vehicles: From devices to architecture and systems software

G Georgakos, U Schlichtmann, R Schneider… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Today, modern high-end cars have close to 100 electronic control units (ECUs) that are
used to implement a variety of applications ranging from safety-critical control to driver …