There is no doubt that semiconductors changed the world beyond anything that could have
been imagined before them. Although people have probably always needed to …

This book discusses new techniques for detecting, controlling, and exploiting the impacts of
temperature variations on nanoscale circuits and systems. A new sensor system is …

The data-oriented applications have introduced increased demands on memory capacity
and bandwidth, which raises the need to rethink the architecture of the current computing …

The stagnation of Dennard scaling along with the move towards heterogeneous 2.5 D and
3D ICs is increasing the thermal design power (TDP) envelopes of general-purpose CPUs …

Static power consumption is nowadays a crucial design parameter in digital circuits due to
emergent mobile products. Leakage currents, the main responsible for static power …

Gain-cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) is a possible alternative to traditional static
random access memories (SRAM). While GC-eDRAM provides high-density, low-leakage …

A novel nine transistor (9T) CMOS SRAM cell design at 32nm feature size is presented to
improve the stability, power dissipation, and delay of the conventional SRAM cell along with …

The changes in temperature described in the previous chapter affect the speed, power, and
reliability of our systems. Throughout this book, we will examine all three of these metrics …

With the advance of semiconductors and ubiquitous computing, the use of system-on-a-chip
(SoC) has become an essential technique to reduce product cost. With this progress and …

Leakage estimation is an important step in nano-scale technology digital design flows. While
reliable data exist on leakage trends with bulk CMOS technology scaling in stand-alone …