Summary: Survival of VLSI design ­ coping with
device variability and uncertainty
Kevin Nowka
Sr Mgr VLSI Systems
IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Acknowledgements:
Sani Nassif, Anne Gattiker (IBM Austin Research)
Chandu Visweswariah, David Frank (IBM Watson Research),
Lars Liebmann, Dan Maynard (IBM Server & Technology Group)
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Motivation for overcoming variation (or at least coping)?
What is at stake? The VLSI economy
Using greater
than 10k of
these..
to make these..
to make these..
to make these..
Very Large Scale Integration is:
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Source: Aziz, Adnan - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences