In the recent past, Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have been proposed as a way of implementing security in modern ICs. PUFs are hardware designs that exploit the randomness in silicon manufacturing processes to create IC-specific signatures …
As RF design scales to the 28nm technology node and beyond, pre-silicon simulation and verification of complex mixed-signal/RF SoCs is becoming intractable due to the difficulties associated with simulating diverse electrical effects and design bugs. …
Due to the use of scaled technologies, high levels of integration and high speeds of today's mixed-signal SoCs, the problem of validating correct operation of the SoC under electrical bugs and that of debugging yield loss due to unmodeled …