Contents
Abstract iɪ
List of Tables vi
List of Figures vii
1 Introduction 1
2 Background 8
2.1 Related work on process variation.................. 8
2.1.1 Early work........................... 8
2.1.2 Variation estimation and modeling............. 10
2.1.3 Effects of variations on the design.............. 15
2.1.4 Testing............................. 17
2.2 Preliminaries ............................. 18
2.2.1 Variation model........................ 18
2.2.2 Compressive sensing..................... 20
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