PERI: A Technique for Extending Delay and Slew Metrics to Ramp Inputs

ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 57-62

  Kashyap, Chandramouli V ^a   Alpert, Charles J ^a   Liu, Frank ^a   Devgan, Anirudh ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay; Elmore; Interconnects; Median; Moments; PDF; Skewness; Slew; Standard deviation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAMP GENERATORS;

RAMP INPUTS;

DELAY CIRCUITS;

EID: 0141761430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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