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Related publications (29)

Analysis and Characterization of Variability in Subthreshold Source-Coupled Logic Circuits

Yusuf Leblebici, Alexandre Schmid, Mahsa Shoaran, Seyed Armin Tajalli

This article explores the effect of device parameter variations on the performance of subthreshold source-coupled logic (STSCL) circuits. A test chip has been fabricated in a standard CMOS 90 nm technology to study the matching properties of STSCL circuits ...

2015

A Sub-mW Pulse-Based 5-bit Flash ADC with a Time-Domain Fully-Digital Reference Ladder

Yusuf Leblebici, Alexandre Schmid, Nikola Katic, Radisav Cojbasic

Journal article A sub-mW pulse-based 5-bit flash ADC with a time-domain fully-digital reference ladder: A Katic, Nikola; Cojbasic, Radisav; Schmid, Alexandre; Leblebici, Yusuf Published in: Microelectronics Journal (ISSN: 0026-2692), vol. 46, num. 12, ...

Elsevier2015

Automatic Generation of Inexact Digital Circuits by Gate-level Pruning

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

Inexact or approximate circuits show great ability to reduce power consumption at the cost of occasional errors in comparison to their conventional counterparts. Even though the benefits of such circuits have been proven for many applications, they are not ...

2015

New Data Structures and Algorithms for Logic Synthesis and Verification

Luca Gaetano Amarù

The strong interaction between Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology contributed substantially to the advancement of modern digital electronics. The continuous downscaling of CMOS Field Effec ...

EPFL2015

Signaling in 3-D integrated circuits, benefits and challenges

Somayyeh Rahimian Omam

Three-dimensional (3-D) or vertical integration is a design and packaging paradigm that can mitigate many of the increasing challenges related to the design of modern integrated systems. 3-D circuits have recently been at the spotlight, since these circuit ...

EPFL2015

Fast Process Variation Analysis in Nano-Scaled Technologies Using Column-Wise Sparse Parameter Selection

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Majid Yazdani, Hassan Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi

With growing concern about process variation in deeply nano-scaled technologies, parameterized device and circuit modeling is becoming very important for design and verification. However, the high dimensionality of parameter space is a serious modeling cha ...

2014

A Circuit Synthesis Flow for Controllable-Polarity Transistors

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Luca Gaetano Amarù

Double-Gate (DG) controllable-polarity Field-Effect Transistors (FETs) are devices whose n- or p- polarity is on-line configurable by adjusting the second gate voltage. Such emerging transistors have been fabricated in silicon nanowires, carbon nanotuges a ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Organic thin-film transistors : from technologies to circuits

Frédéric Zanella

Organic molecules (i.e. carbon-based) have opened a new and rapidly-growing industrial field in the optoelectronic market bringing to this field a new dimension of thinness and flexibility. In this context, this thesis has focused on one particular buildin ...

EPFL2014

A New Basic Logic Structure for Data-Path Computation

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Luca Gaetano Amarù

Nowadays, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) implement arithmetic functions using specific circuits at the logic block level, such as the carry paths, or at the structure level adopting Digital Signal Processing (DSP) blocks. Nevertheless, all these app ...

2014