Managing Temperature Effects in Nanoscale Adaptive Systems

• Main Authors: Wolpert, David (Author), Ampadu, Paul (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Nanotechnology.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.

This book discusses new techniques for detecting, controlling, and exploiting the impacts of temperature variations on nanoscale circuits and systems.  It provides a holistic discussion of temperature management, including physical phenomena (reversal of the MOSFET temperature dependence) that have...

Table of Contents:

• The Role of Temperature in Electronic Design
• Temperature Effects in Semiconductors
• Sensing Temperature Dependence
• Variation-Tolerant Adaptive Voltage Systems
• Controlling the Temperature Dependence
• Exploiting Temperature Dependence in Low-Swing Interconnect Links
• Avoiding Temperature-Induced Errors in On-Chip Interconnects
• Future Work and Open Problems.