ESSDERC/ESSCIRC Workshop
cmos variability research in europe: from atomic scale to circuits and systems

Edinburgh International Conference Centre
19th September 2008

Programme


09.00Welcome and introduction, R. Clerc (NANOSIL)
09.10Measuring and understanding device variability. Keynote, T. Hiramoto, Tokyo Univ. (MIRAI)
09.40Link between ‘ab initio’ material simulation and variability, A. Shluger, UCL (NanoMAT)
10.10Simulation of statistical variability introduced by discreteness of charge and matter, A. Asenov, University of Glasgow (NanoMAT)
10.40Coffee break
11.00Measuring and simulation of device variability at 45 nm technology generation, A. Cathignol, STMicroelectronics/IMEP (PULLNANO)
11.30Measurement and simulation of statistical variability in FinFETs, A. Mercha, IMEC (PULLNANO)
12.00Variability in novel device architectures, G. Iannaccone, IU.NET (NANOSIL)
12.30Lunch
13.30Reliable and variability-tolerant system-on-chip design strategies, B. Dierickx & M. Miranda, IMEC (REALITY)
14.00Grid technology to support statistical device and circuit simulation, S. Roy, University of Glasgow (NanoCMOS).
14.30Impact of variability on multicore processor architectures, S. Furber, Manchester University (NanoCMOS)
15.00Hardware-software interactions in variability and reliability aware design, L. Benini, University of Bologna (REALITY)
15.30Coffee break
16.00Brainstorming session: Practical solution for Variability resistant devices, circuits and systems (A. Shluger, A. Asenov, G. Ghibaudo, S. Furber, B. Dierickx, industry representatives)
17.00Close

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