Abstract:As semiconductor technologies are aggressively advanced, the problem of parameter variations is emerging. Process variations in transistors affect circuit delay, resulting in serious yield loss. Considering the situations, variationaware designs for yield enhancement interest researchers. This paper investigates to exploit the statistical features in circuit delay and to cascade dependent instructions for reducing variations. From statistical static timing analysis in circuit level and performance evaluation i… Show more
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