ISQED 2009: San Jose, California, USA
10th International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED 2009), 16-18 March 2009, San Jose, CA, USA. IEEE 2009
Aging Aware Design
Adam C. Cabe, Zhenyu Qi, Stuart N. Wooters, Travis N. Blalock, Mircea R. Stan: Small embeddable NBTI sensors (SENS) for tracking on-chip performance decay. 1-6
Chenyue Ma, Bo Li, Lining Zhang, Jin He, Xing Zhang, Xinnan Lin, Mansun Chan: A unified FinFET reliability model including high K gate stack dynamic threshold voltage, hot carrier injection, and negative bias temperature instability. 7-12
Balaji Vaidyanathan, Anthony S. Oates, Yuan Xie, Yu Wang: NBTI-aware statistical circuit delay assessment. 13-18
Yu Wang, Xiaoming Chen, Wenping Wang, Varsha Balakrishnan, Yu Cao, Yuan Xie, Huazhong Yang: On the efficacy of input Vector Control to mitigate NBTI effects and leakage power. 19-26
Robust Circuits
R. Venkatraman, R. Castagnetti, Andres Teene, Benjamin Mbouombouo, S. Ramesh: Power & variability test chip architecture and 45nm-generation silicon-based analysis for robust, power-aware SoC design. 27-32
Hariharan Sankaran, Srinivas Katkoori: On-chip dynamic worst-case crosstalk pattern detection and elimination for bus-based macro-cell designs. 33-39
Wei Yao, Yiyu Shi, Lei He, Sudhakar Pamarti, Yu Hu: Worst case timing jitter and amplitude noise in differential signaling. 40-46
Dhruva Ghai, Saraju P. Mohanty, Elias Kougianos, Priyadarsan Patra: A PVT aware accurate statistical logic library for high- metal-gate nano-CMOS. 47-54
Library & Modeling
Xin Wang, Alireza Kasnavi, Harold Levy: A general piece-wise nonlinear library modeling format and size reduction technique for gate-level timing, SI, power, and variation analysis. 55-61
Chandra S. Nagarajan, Lin Yuan, Gang Qu, Barbara G. Stamps: Leakage optimization using transistor-level dual threshold voltage cell library. 62-67
Chun-Yu Chuang, Wai-Kei Mak: Accurate closed-form parameterized block-based statistical timing analysis applying skew-normal distribution. 68-73
Savithri Sundareswaran, Rajendran Panda, Jacob A. Abraham, Yun Zhang, Amit Mittal: Characterization of sequential cells for constraint sensitivities. 74-79
Design & Modeling in Emerging Technologies
Charles Augustine, Arijit Raychowdhury, Yunfei Gao, Mark S. Lundstrom, Kaushik Roy: PETE: A device/circuit analysis framework for evaluation and comparison of charge based emerging devices. 80-85
Rakesh S. Anigundi, Hongbin Sun, Jian-Qiang Lu, Kenneth Rose, Tong Zhang: Architecture design exploration of three-dimensional (3D) integrated DRAM. 86-90
Jeremy R. Tolbert, Saibal Mukhopadhyay: Accurate buffer modeling with slew propagation in subthreshold circuits. 91-96
Bao Liu: Robust differential asynchronous nanoelectronic circuits. 97-102
Circuits for Noise and Variation Tolerance
Karthik Rajagopal, Aatmesh, Vinod Menezes: An enhanced topology for reliability of a high performance 3.3V I/O buffer in a single-well bulk CMOS 1.8v-oxide low voltage process. 103-106
Soheil Ziabakhsh, Hosein Alavi-Rad, Mohammad Alavi-Rad, Mohammad Mortazavi: The design of a low-power high-speed current comparator in 0.35-m CMOS technology. 107-111
Wai Leng Cheong, Brian Owens, Hui En Pham, Christopher Hanken, Jim Le, Terri S. Fiez, Kartikeya Mayaram: Comparison of supply noise and substrate noise reduction in SiGe BiCMOS and FDSOI processes. 112-115
Charbel J. Akl, Rafic A. Ayoubi, Magdy A. Bayoumi: An effective staggered-phase damping technique for suppressing power-gating resonance noise during mode transition. 116-119
Power vs Performance Trade offs
Ehsan Pakbaznia, Massoud Pedram: Design and application of multimodal power gating structures. 120-126
Kwangok Jeong, Andrew B. Kahng, Hailong Yao: Revisiting the linear programming framework for leakage power vs. performance optimization. 127-134
António Gusmão, L. Miguel Silveira, José C. Monteiro: Parameter tuning in SVM-based power macro-modeling. 135-140
Ying-Cherng Lan, Michael C. Chen, Wei-De. Chen, Sao-Jie Chen, Yu Hen Hu: Performance-energy tradeoffs in reliable NoCs. 141-146
Process Variation
Siddharth Garg, Diana Marculescu: 3D-GCP: An analytical model for the impact of process variations on the critical path delay distribution of 3D ICs. 147-155
Valeriy Sukharev, Ara Markosian, Armen Kteyan, Levon Manukyan, Nikolay Khachatryan, Jun-Ho Choy, Hasmik Lazaryan, Henrik Hovsepyan, Seiji Onoue, Takuo Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kamigaki: Control of design specific variation in etch-assisted via pattern transfer by means of full-chip simulation. 156-161
Farshad Moradi, Dag T. Wisland, Hamid Mahmoodi, Ali Peiravi, Snorre Aunet, Tuan Vu Cao: New subthreshold concepts in 65nm CMOS technology. 162-166
Simeon Realov, William F. McLaughlin, Kenneth L. Shepard: On-chip transistor characterization arrays with digital interfaces for variability characterization. 167-171
Embedded Papers
Dhruva Ghai, Saraju P. Mohanty, Elias Kougianos: Variability-aware optimization of nano-CMOS Active Pixel Sensors using design and analysis of Monte Carlo experiments. 172-178
Jwu-E Chen, Pei-Wen Luo, Chin-Long Wey: Yield evaluation of analog placement with arbitrary capacitor ratio. 179-184
Aditya P. Karmarkar, Xiaopeng Xu, Victor Moroz, Greg Rollins, Xiao Lin: Analysis of performance and reliability trade-off in dummy pattern design for 32-nm technology. 185-189
Rouwaida Kanj, Rajiv V. Joshi, Jente B. Kuang, J. Kim, Mesut Meterelliyoz, William R. Reohr, Sani R. Nassif, Kevin J. Nowka: Statistical yield analysis of silicon-on-insulator embedded DRAM. 190-194
Hiroki Sunagawa, Haruhiko Terada, Akira Tsuchiya, Kazutoshi Kobayashi, Hidetoshi Onodera: Erect of regularity-enhanced layout on printability and circuit performance of standard cells. 195-200
Enric Musoll: Trading off higher execution latency for increased reliability in tile-based massive multi-core architectures. 201-207
Yan Liu, Scott Hareland, Donald Hall, Bill Wold, Roger Hubing, Robert Mehregan, Ronen Malka, Manish Sharma, Tom Lane: A Simulation-based strategy used in electrical design for reliability. 208-212
Satish Sivaswamy, Kia Bazargan, Marc D. Riedel: Estimation and optimization of reliability of noisy digital circuits. 213-219
Biwei Liu, Shuming Chen, Yi Xu: Combinational logic SER estimation with the presence of re-convergence. 220-225
Jone F. Chen, Kuen-Shiuan Tian, Shiang-Yu Chen, Kuo-Ming Wu, C. M. Liu: Effect of NDD dosage on hot-carrier reliability in DMOS transistors. 226-229
Amir Khatib Zadeh, Catherine H. Gebotys: Side channel aware leakage management in nanoscale Cryptosystem-on-Chip (CoC). 230-235
Hai Yu, Michael Nicolaidis, Lorena Anghel: An effective approach to detect logic soft errors in digital circuits based on GRAAL. 236-240
Meng-Syue Chan, Chun-Yao Wang, Yung-Chih Chen: An efficient approach to sip design integration. 241-247
Bin Zhou, Yizheng Ye, Zhao-lin Li, Xin-chun Wu, Rui Ke: A new low power test pattern generator using a variable-length ring counter. 248-252
Youssef Benabboud, Alberto Bosio, Patrick Girard, Serge Pravossoudovitch, Arnaud Virazel, Laroussi Bouzaida, Isabelle Izaute: A case study on logic diagnosis for System-on-Chip. 253-259
Anshuman Chandra, Yasunari Kanzawa, Rohit Kapur: Proactive management of X's in scan chains for compression. 260-265
Hsiu-Ming Chang, Kuan-Yu Lin, Chin-Hsuan Chen, Kwang-Ting Cheng: A Built-in self-calibration scheme for pipelined ADCs. 266-271
Yuchun Ma, Xiang Qiu, Xiangqing He, Xianlong Hong: Incremental power optimization for multiple supply voltage design. 280-286
Yun Du, Yangshuo Ding, Yujie Chen, Zhiqiang Gao: IP protection platform based on watermarking technique. 287-290
Mohsen Raji, Behnam Ghavami, Hossein Pedram: Statistical static performance analysis of asynchronous circuits considering process variation. 291-296
Lei Gao, David Zaretsky, Gaurav Mittal, Dan Schonfeld, Prith Banerjee: A software pipelining algorithm in high-level synthesis for FPGA architectures. 297-302
Qian Ying Tang, Qiang Chen, Niloy Chatterjee, Vedank Tripathi, Natarajan Nandagopalan, Sridhar Tirumala: Phenomenological model for gate length bias dependent inverter delay change with emphasis on library characterization. 303-308
Thom Jefferson A. Eguia, Ning Mi, Sheldon X.-D. Tan: Statistical decoupling capacitance allocation by efficient numerical quadrature method. 309-316
Yi-Ling Liu, Chun-Yao Wang, Yung-Chih Chen, Ya-Hsin Chang: A novel ACO-based pattern generation for peak power estimation in VLSI circuits. 317-323
Leomar S. da Rosa Jr., Felipe Ribeiro Schneider, Renato P. Ribas, André Inácio Reis: Switch level optimization of digital CMOS gate networks. 324-329
System Level Modeling & Design
Muhammad Rashid, Fabrizio Ferrandi, Koen Bertels: hArtes design flow for heterogeneous platforms. 330-338
Adeel Israr, Abdulhadi Shoufan, Sorin A. Huss: An efficient reliability evaluation approach for system-level design of embedded systems. 339-344
Feng Liu, Otmane Aït Mohamed, Xiaoyu Song, QingPing Tan: A case study on system-level modeling by aspect-oriented programming. 345-349
Amlan Ganguly, Kevin Chang, Partha Pratim Pande, Benjamin Belzer, Alireza Nojeh: Performance evaluation of wireless networks on chip architectures. 350-355
System and Interface Validation
Albert Chiang, Wei-Hua Han, Bhanu Kapoor: Validating physical access layer of WiMAX using SystemVerilog. 356-359
Yongquan Fan, Zeljko Zilic: Accelerating jitter tolerance qualification for high speed serial interfaces. 360-365
Hiroaki Yoshida, Masahiro Fujita: Improving the accuracy of rule-based equivalence checking of system-level design descriptions by identifying potential internal equivalences. 366-370
Miroslav N. Velev, Ping Gao: Efficient SAT-based techniques for Design of Experiments by using static variable ordering. 371-376
Mrinal Bose, Prashant Naphade, Jayanta Bhadra, Hillel Miller: An abstraction mechanism to maximize stimulus portability across RTL, FPGA, software models and silicon of SoCs. 377-381
Quality Digital Design
Javid Jaffari, Mohab Anis: Timing yield estimation of digital circuits using a control variate technique. 382-387
Koustav Bhattacharya, Nagarajan Ranganathan: A unified gate sizing formulation for optimizing soft error rate, cross-talk noise and power under process variations. 388-393
Stephen Bijansky, Sae Kyu Lee, Adnan Aziz: TuneLogic: Post-silicon tuning of dual-Vdd designs. 394-400
Shingo Watanabe, Masanori Hashimoto, Toshinori Sato: A case for exploiting complex arithmetic circuits towards performance yield enhancement. 401-407
Natasa Miskov-Zivanov, Diana Marculescu: A systematic approach to modeling and analysis of transient faults in logic circuits. 408-413
Embedded Papers
Thorsten Weyl, Dave Clarke, Karl Rinne, James A. Power: ESD event simulation automation using automatic extraction of the relevant portion of a full chip. 414-418
Ayhan A. Mutlu, Jiayong Le, Ruben Molina, Mustafa Celik: Parametric analysis to determine accurate interconnect extraction corners for design performance. 419-423
Shu Li, Tong Zhang: Exploratory study on circuit and architecture design of very high density diode-switch phase change memories. 424-429
Bao Liu: Adaptive voltage controlled nanoelectronic addressing for yield, accuracy and resolution. 430-435
Anita Kumari, Javier F. Pulecio, Sanjukta Bhanja: Defect characterization in magnetic field coupled arrays. 436-441
Akif Sultan, John Faricelli, Sushant Suryagandh, Hans vanMeer, Kaveri Mathur, James Pattison, Sean Hannon, Greg Constant, Kalyana Kumar, Kevin Carrejo, Joe Meier, Rasit Onur Topaloglu, Darin Chan, Uwe Hahn, Thorsten Knopp, Victor Andrade, Bill Gardiol, Steve Hejl, David Wu, James Buller, Larry Bair, Ali Icel, Yuri Apanovich: CAD utilities to comprehend layout-dependent stress effects in 45 nm high- performance SOI custom macro design. 442-446
Maruthi Chandrasekhar Bh, Sudeb Dasgupta: A 1.2 volt, 90nm, 16-bit three way segmented digital to analog converter (DAC) for low power applications. 447-450
Yulei Zhang, Ling Zhang, Alina Deutsch, George A. Katopis, Daniel M. Dreps, James F. Buckwalter, Ernest S. Kuh, Chung-Kuan Cheng: Design methodology of high performance on-chip global interconnect using terminated transmission-line. 451-458
Ji-Hye Bong, Yong-Jin Kwon, Kyeong-Sik Min, Sung-Mo Kang: New word-line driving scheme for suppressing oxide-tunneling leakage in sub-65-nm SRAMs. 459-464
Xin He, Syed Al-Kadry, Afshin Abdollahi: Adaptive leakage control on body biasing for reducing power consumption in CMOS VLSI circuit. 465-470
S. Lakshminarayanan, J. Joung, G. Narasimhan, R. Kapre, M. Slanina, J. Tung, M. Whately, C.-L. Hou, W.-J. Liao, S.-C. Lin, P.-G. Ma, C.-W. Fan, M.-C. Hsieh, F.-C. Liu, K.-L. Yeh, W.-C. Tseng, S. W. Lu: Standby power reduction and SRAM cell optimization for 65nm technology. 471-475
Parimala Viswanath, Pranav Murthy, Debajit Das, R. Venkatraman, Ajoy Mandal, Arvind Veeravalli, H. Udayakumar: Optimization strategies to improve statistical timing. 476-481
Jithendra Srinivas, Madhusudan Rao, Sukumar Jairam, H. Udayakumar, Jagdish C. Rao: Clock gating effectiveness metrics: Applications to power optimization. 482-487
Hsin-Hua Pan, Hung-Ming Chen, Chia-Yi Chang: Buffer/flip-flop block planning for power-integrity-driven floorplanning. 488-493
Basab Datta, Wayne Burleson: On temperature planarization effect of copper dummy fills in deep nanometer technology. 494-499
Uday Doddannagari, Shiyan Hu, Weiping Shi: Fast characterization of parameterized cell library. 500-505
Dawei Liu, Qiang Zhou, Jinian Bian, Yici Cai, Xianlong Hong: Cell shifting aware of wirelength and overlap. 506-510
Mei-Fang Chiang, Takumi Okamoto, Takeshi Yoshimura: Lagrangian relaxation based register placement for high-performance circuits. 511-516
Adithya V. Kodati, Koneswara S. Vemuri, Lili He, Morris Jones: Implementation of power managed hyper transport system for transmission of HD video. 517-521
Zohreh Karimi, Majid Sarrafzadeh: Power aware placement for FPGAs with dual supply voltages. 522-526
Saraju P. Mohanty, Elias Kougianos, Wei Cai, Manish Ratnani: VLSI architectures of perceptual based video watermarking for real-time copyright protection. 527-534
Shu-Hsuan Chou, Chi-Neng Wen, Yan-Ling Liu, Tien-Fu Chen: VeriC: A semi-hardware description language to bridge the gap between ESL design and RTL models. 535-540
Sumit Ahuja, Deepak Mathaikutty, Gaurav Singh, Joe Stetzer, Sandeep K. Shukla, Ajit Dingankar: Power estimation methodology for a high-level synthesis framework. 541-546
Miguel Miranda, Bart Dierickx, Paul Zuber, Petr Dobrovolný, F. Kutscherauer, Philippe Roussel, Pavel Poliakov: Variability aware modeling of SoCs: From device variations to manufactured system yield. 547-553
Hailong You, Maofeng Yang, Dan Wang, Xinzhang Jia: Kriging Model combined with latin hypercube sampling for surrogate modeling of analog integrated circuit performance. 554-558
Co design applications for IC Packaging
Joseph Fjelstad: Retrospective on electronics technology and prospective methods for co-design of IC packaging and manufacturing improvements. 559-564
Farhang Yazdani, Jamal S. Izadian: 50GB/s signaling on organic substrates using PMTL technology. 565-568
Syed M. Alam, Robert E. Jones, Scott Pozder, Ankur Jain: Die/wafer stacking with reciprocal design symmetry (RDS) for mask reuse in three-dimensional (3D) integration technology. 569-575
Amirali Shayan Arani, Xiang Hu, He Peng, Wenjian Yu, Wanping Zhang, Chung-Kuan Cheng, Mikhail Popovich, Xiaoming Chen, Lew Chua-Eoan, Xiaohua Kong: Parallel flow to analyze the impact of the voltage regulator model in nanoscale power distribution network. 576-581
Novel Design Methodologies
Lining Zhang, Jin He, Jian Zhang, Feng Liu, Yue Fu, Yan Song, Xing Zhang: An analytic model for Ge/Si core/shell nanowire MOSFETs considering drift-diffusion and ballistic transport. 582-587
Vinayak Honkote, Baris Taskin: Zero clock skew synchronization with rotary clocking technology. 588-593
Kevin Brownell, Ali Durlov Khan, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei: Place and route considerations for voltage interpolated designs. 594-600
Memory Design Solutions
Ying Zhou, Rouwaida Kanj, Kanak Agarwal, Zhuo Li, Rajiv V. Joshi, Sani R. Nassif, Weiping Shi: The impact of BEOL lithography effects on the SRAM cell performance and yield. 607-612
Yanzhong Xu, Lin-Shih Liu, Mark Chan, Jeff Watt: Process variation impact on FPGA configuration memory. 613-616
Soner Yaldiz, Umut Arslan, Xin Li, Larry T. Pileggi: Efficient statistical analysis of read timing failures in SRAM circuits. 617-621
Costas Argyrides, Ahmad A. Al-Yamani, Carlos Arthur Lang Lisbôa, Luigi Carro, Dhiraj K. Pradhan: Increasing memory yield in future technologies through innovative design. 622-626
Clock and Noise
Debasish Das, William Scott, Shahin Nazarian, Hai Zhou: An efficient current-based logic cell model for crosstalk delay analysis. 627-633
Ramamurthy Vishweshwara, Ramakrishnan Venkatraman, Vipul Kadodwala: Early clock prototyping for design analysis and quality entitlement. 641-646
Aida Todri, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska, Francois Maire, Christophe Matheron: A study of decoupling capacitor effectiveness in power and ground grid networks. 653-658
Low Voltage Design
Shunsuke Okumura, Yusuke Iguchi, Shusuke Yoshimoto, Hidehiro Fujiwara, Hiroki Noguchi, Koji Nii, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Masahiko Yoshimoto: A 0.56-V 128kb 10T SRAM using column line assist (CLA) scheme. 659-663
Suganth Paul, Rajesh Garg, Sunil P. Khatri, Sheila Vaidya: Design and implementation of a sub-threshold BFSK transmitter. 664-672
Saraju P. Mohanty, Dhruva Ghai, Elias Kougianos, Bharat Joshi: A universal level converter towards the realization of energy efficient implantable drug delivery Nano-Electro-Mechanical-Systems. 673-679
Basab Datta, Wayne Burleson: Temperature effects on energy optimization in sub-threshold circuit design. 680-685
Amir Moradi, Mehrdad Khatir, Mahmoud Salmasizadeh, Mohammad T. Manzuri Shalmani: Charge recovery logic as a side channel attack countermeasure. 686-691
Test Power and Noise
Bhanu Kapoor, Shankar Hemmady, Shireesh Verma, Kaushik Roy, Manuel A. d'Abreu: Impact of SoC power management techniques on verification and testing. 692-695
Alodeep Sanyal, Abhisek Pan, Sandip Kundu: A study on impact of loading effect on capacitive crosstalk noise. 696-701
Ju-Yueh Lee, Yu Hu, Rupak Majumdar, Lei He: Simultaneous test pattern compaction, ordering and X-filling for testing power reduction. 702-707
Aftab Farooqi, Richard O. Gale, Sudhakar M. Reddy, Brian Nutter, Chris Monico: Markov source based test length optimized SCAN-BIST architecture. 708-713
Alexander Stempkovsky, Alexey Glebov, Sergey Gavrilov: Calculation of stress probability for NBTI-aware timing analysis. 714-718
Advances in timing Analysis and floor planning
Ali Dasdan, Santanu Kolay, Mustafa Yazgan: Derating for static timing analysis: Theory and practice. 719-727
Nikolay Rubanov: An information theoretic framework to compute the MAX/MIN operations in parameterized statistical timing analysis. 728-733
Song Chen, Zheng Xu, Takeshi Yoshimura: A generalized V-shaped multilevel method for large scale floorplanning. 734-739
Xu He, Sheqin Dong, Yuchun Ma, Xianlong Hong: Simultaneous buffer and interlayer via planning for 3D floorplanning. 740-745
Akhilesh Kumar, Mohab Anis: IR-drop management CAD techniques in FPGAs for power grid reliability. 746-752
Power Analysis and Power Delivery Systems
Sriram Sambamurthy, Sankar Gurumurthy, Ramtilak Vemu, Jacob A. Abraham: Functionally valid gate-level peak power estimation for processors. 753-758
Xiongfei Meng, Resve A. Saleh: Active decap design considerations for optimal supply noise reduction. 765-769
Shan Zeng, Wenjian Yu, Wanping Zhang, Jian Wang, Xianlong Hong, Chung-Kuan Cheng: Efficient power network analysis with complete inductive modeling. 770-775
Zhiyu Zeng, Peng Li, Zhuo Feng: Parallel partitioning based on-chip power distribution network analysis using locality acceleration. 776-781
Low Voltage and Variation-Tolerant Design
Animesh Kumar, Jan M. Rabaey, Kannan Ramchandran: SRAM supply voltage scaling: A reliability perspective. 782-787
Seung Eun Lee, Chris Wilkerson, Ming Zhang, Rajendra Yavatkar, Shih-Lien Lu, Nader Bagherzadeh: Low power adaptive pipeline based on instruction isolation. 788-793
Charbel J. Akl, Rafic A. Ayoubi, Magdy A. Bayoumi: Post-Silicon Clock-nvert (PSCI) for reducing process-variation induced skew in buffered clock networks. 794-798
Ashay Narsale, Michael C. Huang: Variation-tolerant hierarchical voltage monitoring circuit for soft error detection. 799-805
Rajballav Dash, Rajesh Garg, Sunil P. Khatri, Gwan S. Choi: SEU hardened clock regeneration circuits. 806-813
System Power and Reliability
Sohaib Majzoub, Resve Saleh, Rabab K. Ward: PVT variation impact on voltage island formation in MPSoC design. 814-819
Toshinori Sato, Shingo Watanabe: Uncriticality-directed scheduling for tackling variation and power challenges. 820-825
Avinash Karanth Kodi, Ahmed Louri, Janet Meiling Wang: Design of energy-efficient channel buffers with router bypassing for network-on-chips (NoCs). 826-832
Jin Sun, Avinash Karanth Kodi, Ahmed Louri, Janet Meiling Wang: NBTI aware workload balancing in multi-core systems. 833-838
Mehrtash Manoochehri, Alireza Ejlali, Seyed Ghassem Miremadi: Joint write policy and fault-tolerance mechanism selection for caches in DSM technologies: Energy-reliability trade-off. 839-844



