Incremental criticality and yield gradients

Proceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1130-1135

  Xiong, Jinjun ^a   Zolotov, Vladimir ^a   Visweswariah, Chandu ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE CIRCUITS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; NUMERICA L RESULTS; ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; PHYSICAL SYNTHESIS; STATISTICAL STATIC TIMING ANALYSIS; TIMING OPTIMIZATION; TIMING-DRIVEN;

GRADIENT METHODS; HEALTH; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); OPTIMIZATION; STATIC ANALYSIS; TESTING; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING DEVICES;

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION);

EID: 49749131157     PISSN: 15301591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DATE.2008.4484830     Document Type: Conference Paper

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