Title :
Impact of Process Variations on Flip-Flops Energy and Timing Characteristics
Author :
Lanuzza, Marco ; De Rose, Raffaele ; Frustaci, Fabio ; Perri, Stefania ; Corsonello, Pasquale
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., Comput. Sci. & Syst., Univ. of Calabria, Rende, Italy
Abstract :
In this paper, the influence of random process variations on speed and energy consumption of various classes of flip-flops is analyzed. Differently from previous works, the process variability impact has been evaluated on physical designs. Moreover, the combined effects of process and environmental variations were also analyzed to recognize more robust flip-flop topologies.
Keywords :
energy consumption; flip-flops; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit manufacture; timing; energy consumption; flip-flops energy; process variations; random process variation; timing characteristics; Delay; Energy consumption; Flip-flops; Random processes; Topology; Transistors; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI (ISVLSI), 2010 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Lixouri, Kefalonia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7321-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISVLSI.2010.75
