PAnDA: A reconfigurable architecture that adapts to physical substrate variations

JA Walker, MA Trefzer, SJ Bale… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are widely used in applications where online
reconfigurable signal processing is required. Speed and function density of FPGAs are …

Front-end process modeling in silicon

L Pelaz, LA Marqués, M Aboy, P López… - The European Physical …, 2009 - Springer
Front-end processing mostly deals with technologies associated to junction formation in
semiconductor devices. Ion implantation and thermal anneal models are key to predict …

Modeling arsenic deactivation through arsenic-vacancy clusters using an atomistic kinetic Monte Carlo approach

R Pinacho, M Jaraiz, P Castrillo… - Applied Physics …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
A comprehensive atomistic model for arsenic in silicon which includes charge effects and is
consistent with first-principles calculations for arsenic-vacancy cluster energies has been …

Optimising variability tolerant standard cell libraries

JA Hilder, JA Walker, AM Tyrrell - 2009 IEEE Congress on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes an approach to optimise transistor dimensions within a standard cell
library. The goal is to extract high-speed and low-power circuits which are more tolerant to …

Evolving variability-tolerant CMOS designs

JA Walker, JA Hilder, AM Tyrrell - International Conference on Evolvable …, 2008 - Springer
As the size of CMOS devices is approaching the atomic level, the increasing intrinsic device
variability is leading to higher failure rates in conventional CMOS designs. In this paper, two …

A multiscale systems approach to microelectronic processes

RD Braatz, RC Alkire, EG Seebauer, TO Drews… - Computers & chemical …, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper describes applications of molecular simulation to microelectronics processes and
the subsequent development of techniques for multiscale simulation and multiscale systems …

Fermi-level effects in semiconductor processing: A modeling scheme for atomistic kinetic Monte Carlo simulators

I Martin-Bragado, P Castrillo, M Jaraiz… - Journal of applied …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
Atomistic process simulation is expected to play an important role for the development of
next generations of integrated circuits. This work describes an approach for modeling …

The evolution of standard cell libraries for future technology nodes

JA Walker, JA Hilder, D Reid, A Asenov, S Roy… - … and Evolvable Machines, 2011 - Springer
Evolvable Hardware has been a discipline for over 15 years. Its application has ranged from
simple circuit design to antenna design. However, research in the field has often been …

Optimizing electronic standard cell libraries for variability tolerance through the nano-CMOS grid

JA Walker, R Sinnott, G Stewart… - … Transactions of the …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The project Meeting the Design Challenges of nano-CMOS Electronics (http://www.
nanocmos. ac. uk) was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council …

Improved physical models for advanced silicon device processing

L Pelaz, LA Marqués, M Aboy, P López… - Materials Science in …, 2017 - Elsevier
We review atomistic modeling approaches for issues related to ion implantation and
annealing in advanced device processing. We describe how models have been upgraded to …