A quadratic modeling-based framework for accurate statistical timing analysis considering correlations

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 206-215

  Khandelwal, Vishai ^a,b   Srivastava, Ankur ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Fabrication variability; Quadratic timing model; Statistical timing analysis (STA)

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION VARIABILITY; QUADRATIC TIMING MODEL; STATISTICAL TIMING ANALYSIS (STA);

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34047175379     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2007.893585     Document Type: Article

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