EE241: Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits

Selected Online Papers

Most of the references can be found through IEEE Xplore.

All documents are in PDF format unless otherwise mentioned.

Scaling Perspectives and Limits

J. Meindl, Low Power Microelectronics: Retrospect and Prospect, Proceedings of the IEEE, April 1995.
B. Davari et al., CMOS Scaling for High Performance and Low Power - The Next Ten Years, Proceedings of the IEEE, April 1995.
S. Borkar, Design challenges of technology scaling. IEEE Micro, vol.19, no.4, p.23-29, July-Aug. 1999.
S. Chou, Innovation and Integration in the Nanoelectronics Era, Proceedings ISSCC 2005, Febr. 2005.

Delay and Timing Modeling - Performance Optimization

K.Keutzer, Delay Modeling and Static Timing Verification, Lecture Notes EE244
Stojanovic et al, Methods for True Power Optimization, ICCAD 2002. (presentation slides)

Timing and Synchronization

David Messerschmitt, Synchronization in Digital System Design, JSAC, Oct 90.