David Blaauw

TL;DR: A probabilistic preroute noise analysis approach to identify postroute noise failures before the actual detailed route is completed and new methods to estimate the RC characteristics of victim and aggressor lines, their coupling capacitances, and the aggressor transition times before routing is performed are introduced.

TL;DR: A constant charge subtraction scheme removes continuous comparator delay from the oscillation period, which is the source of temperature dependence in conventional RC relaxation oscillators, enabling low power operation.

TL;DR: An 8-bit sub-ranging SAR ADC designed for bursty signals having long time periods with small code spread is presented, saving previous sample's MSB voltage and reuses it throughout subsequent conversions, reducing energy consumed in the comparator and digital logic and yielding total energy savings of 2.6×.

TL;DR: It is shown that the optimal way to select samples, to capture intra-die variation accurately, is according to the probability distribution function of total process variation, which means reduced sample size to meet target accuracy for computing leakage distribution due to the inter-die component only when compared to random selection of samples.

TL;DR: In terms of accuracy, memory, and speed, it is shown that the precorrected-FFT method is an excellent approach for simulating on-chip inductance in a large circuit.