Download or read book Variation aware and Aging aware Design Tools and Techniques for Nanometer scale Integrated Circuits written by Saket Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Variation Aware Design of Custom Integrated Circuits A Hands on Field Guide written by Trent McConaghy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book targets custom IC designers who are encountering variation issues in their designs, especially for modern process nodes at 45nm and below, such as statistical process variations, environmental variations, and layout effects. It teaches them the state-of-the-art in Variation-Aware Design tools, which help the designer to analyze quickly the variation effects, identify the problems, and fix the problems. Furthermore, this book describes the algorithms and algorithm behavior/performance/limitations, which is of use to designers considering these tools, designers using these tools, CAD researchers, and CAD managers.

Download or read book Yield Aware Analog IC Design and Optimization in Nanometer scale Technologies written by António Manuel Lourenço Canelas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new methodology with reduced time impact to address the problem of analog integrated circuit (IC) yield estimation by means of Monte Carlo (MC) analysis, inside an optimization loop of a population-based algorithm. The low time impact on the overall optimization processes enables IC designers to perform yield optimization with the most accurate yield estimation method, MC simulations using foundry statistical device models considering local and global variations. The methodology described by the authors delivers on average a reduction of 89% in the total number of MC simulations, when compared to the exhaustive MC analysis over the full population. In addition to describing a newly developed yield estimation technique, the authors also provide detailed background on automatic analog IC sizing and optimization.

Download or read book High performance Power aware Physical Designs for Nanometer scale Integrated Circuits written by Chan-Seok Hwang and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lifetime Reliability aware Design of Integrated Circuits written by Mohsen Raji and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the state-of-the-art research in design of modern electronic systems used in safety-critical applications such as medical devices, aircraft flight control, and automotive systems. The authors discuss lifetime reliability of digital systems, as well as an overview of the latest research in the field of reliability-aware design of integrated circuits. They address modeling approaches and techniques for evaluation and improvement of lifetime reliability for nano-scale CMOS digital circuits, as well as design algorithms that are the cornerstone of Computer Aided Design (CAD) of reliable VLSI circuits. In addition to developing lifetime reliability analysis and techniques for clocked storage elements (such as flip-flops), the authors also describe analysis and improvement strategies targeting commercial digital circuits.

Download or read book Techniques for Variation Aware Modeling in Static Timing Analysis of Integrated Circuits written by Suryanarayana Pendela and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the Semiconductor Industry's success can be attributed to Moore's law which states that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double approximately every two years. Semiconductor industry has ever since progressed from designs with a few hundred transistors to today's complex designs incorporating millions of transistors. The current era of nanometer technologies threatens to impact the sustainability of Moore's law with random variations in the manufacturing process impacting yield in a big way. Considerable research efforts have since been devoted to account for these variations leading to a new paradigm called Design for Manufacturing (DFM). Traditional Static Timing Analysis (STA) has given way to Statistical Static Timing Analysis (SSTA) techniques wherein the parameters considered are treated as random variables with assigned probability distribution functions. However, SSTA is still not seen as a mature flow for commercial adoption, owing to the inherent complex nature of the SSTA algorithms. In this thesis, we propose an alternate framework to STA under the presence of process variations using Interval Valued Static Timing Analysis (IVSTA). Process variations are accounted for by using a macro-modeling framework providing an efficient and fast timing analysis technique. Results on standard benchmarks show that IVSTA can predict the timing slack by a margin of 5-10% error and huge improvement of runtime compared to traditional corner based analysis. The framework involves a one-time characterization of the standard cell library and can be incorporated without much modification to the design flow. An iterative optimization framework using IVSTA engine is also presented which optimizes a routed netlist for variations at a minimum penalty of area and power.

Download or read book Aging Aware Design Methods for Reliable Analog Integrated Circuits Using Operating Point Dependent Degradation written by Nico Hellwege and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nanoscale VLSI written by Rohit Dhiman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes methodologies in the design of VLSI devices, circuits and their applications at nanoscale levels. The book begins with the discussion on the dominant role of power dissipation in highly scaled devices.The 15 Chapters of the book are classified under four sections that cover design, modeling, and simulation of electronic, magnetic and compound semiconductors for their applications in VLSI devices, circuits, and systems. This comprehensive volume eloquently presents the design methodologies for ultra–low power VLSI design, potential post–CMOS devices, and their applications from the architectural and system perspectives. The book shall serve as an invaluable reference book for the graduate students, Ph.D./ M.S./ M.Tech. Scholars, researchers, and practicing engineers working in the frontier areas of nanoscale VLSI design.

Download or read book Industrial Engineering Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 2090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial engineering affects all levels of society, with innovations in manufacturing and other forms of engineering oftentimes spawning cultural or educational shifts along with new technologies. Industrial Engineering: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications serves as a vital compendium of research, detailing the latest research, theories, and case studies on industrial engineering. Bringing together contributions from authors around the world, this three-volume collection represents the most sophisticated research and developments from the field of industrial engineering and will prove a valuable resource for researchers, academics, and practitioners alike.

Download or read book Integrated Circuit and System Design Power and Timing Modeling Optimization and Simulation written by Nadine Azemard and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation. Papers cover high level design, low power design techniques, low power analog circuits, statistical static timing analysis, power modeling and optimization, low power routing optimization, security and asynchronous design, low power applications, modeling and optimization, and more.

Download or read book Design Automation Flow Using Library Adaptation for Variation Aware Logic Synthesis written by Lava Kumar Atluri and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As semiconductor technology reaches to nanometer scale, the impact of process uncertainties are increasing, leading to performance and power loss, and consequently reducing the yield. These process parameter variations necessitate the use of suitable variation-aware design techniques. There are some architecture level, circuit level, and post silicon techniques with certain overheads to reduce the effect of such variations. Along with good design techniques, variation-aware analysis plays a major role in determining the efficacy of variation tolerant design. Conventional way of min-max static timing analysis is no more a reliable option; we need to use Statistical Static Timing Analysis (SSTA). Although various techniques for variation tolerant design have been proposed, no major emphasis was given to the initial design phases of the ASIC design flow. In this work, we focused on logic synthesis stage to nullify the effects of process variations. For that, we proposed a novel technique called Library Adaptation for Variation Aware (LAVA) technique and automated the flow for the creation of process variation tolerant design. In LAVA technique a new approach is used to create variation aware libraries by re-characterization of existing libraries and new variation tolerant standard cells are created on demand. This work proposes a design methodology from RTL to GDSII that incorporates LAVA technique at logic synthesis stage for creating variation tolerant design with negligible overhead. The primary goal of our methodology is to capture the statistical aspects of variation from transistor-level of abstraction into gate-level i.e., standard cell library. This newly created variation-aware standard cell library is provided to the existing logic synthesis tool to select the better design at higher level of design cycle, thus making the design more robust to process variations. We have used accurate SSTA using PrimeTime VX by providing variation aware libraries and distribution of parameter values. To make the technique more efficient the design is taken to place and route stage using IC Compiler and verified again for the performance in presence of variations. Results using both combinational and sequential benchmarks clearly show the improvement of critical and near critical paths in presence of process variations with minimal power and area penalty. The use of multi-Vth libraries considerably reduced the power and area overhead introduced by this technique.

Download or read book Variation Aware Analog Structural Synthesis written by Trent McConaghy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes new tools for front end analog designers, starting with global variation-aware sizing, and extending to novel variation-aware topology design. The tools aid design through automation, but more importantly, they also aid designer insight through automation. We now describe four design tasks, each more general than the previous, and how this book contributes design aids and insight aids to each. The ?rst designer task targeted is global robust sizing. This task is supported by a design tool that does automated, globally reliable, variation-aware s- ing (SANGRIA),and an insight-aiding tool that extracts designer-interpretable whitebox models that relate sizings to circuit performance (CAFFEINE). SANGRIA searches on several levels of problem dif?culty simultaneously, from lower cheap-to-evaluate “exploration” layers to higher full-evaluation “exploitation” layers (structural homotopy). SANGRIAmakes maximal use of circuit simulations by performing scalable data mining on simulation results to choose new candidate designs. CAFFEINE accomplishes its task by tre- ing function induction as a tree-search problem. It constrains its tree search space via a canonical-functional-form grammar, and searches the space with grammatically constrained genetic programming. The second designer task is topology selection/topology design. Topology selection tools must consider a broad variety of topologies such that an app- priate topology is selected, must easily adapt to new semiconductor process nodes, and readily incorporate new topologies. Topology design tools must allow designers to creatively explore new topology ideas as rapidly as possible.

Download or read book Managing Temperature Effects in Nanoscale Adaptive Systems written by David Wolpert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses new techniques for detecting, controlling, and exploiting the impacts of temperature variations on nanoscale circuits and systems. A new sensor system is described that can determine the temperature dependence as well as the operating temperature to improve system reliability. A new method is presented to control a circuit’s temperature dependence by individually tuning pull-up and pull-down networks to their temperature-insensitive operating points. This method extends the range of supply voltages that can be made temperature-insensitive, achieving insensitivity at nominal voltage for the first time.

Download or read book Low Power Variation Tolerant Design in Nanometer Silicon written by Swarup Bhunia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design considerations for low-power operations and robustness with respect to variations typically impose contradictory requirements. Low-power design techniques such as voltage scaling, dual-threshold assignment and gate sizing can have large negative impact on parametric yield under process variations. This book focuses on circuit/architectural design techniques for achieving low power operation under parameter variations. We consider both logic and memory design aspects and cover modeling and analysis, as well as design methodology to achieve simultaneously low power and variation tolerance, while minimizing design overhead. This book will discuss current industrial practices and emerging challenges at future technology nodes.

Download or read book Timing Performance of Nanometer Digital Circuits Under Process Variations written by Victor Champac and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the digital design of integrated circuits under process variations, with a focus on design-time solutions. The authors describe a step-by-step methodology, going from logic gates to logic paths to the circuit level. Topics are presented in comprehensively, without overwhelming use of analytical formulations. Emphasis is placed on providing digital designers with understanding of the sources of process variations, their impact on circuit performance and tools for improving their designs to comply with product specifications. Various circuit-level “design hints” are highlighted, so that readers can use then to improve their designs. A special treatment is devoted to unique design issues and the impact of process variations on the performance of FinFET based circuits. This book enables readers to make optimal decisions at design time, toward more efficient circuits, with better yield and higher reliability.

Download or read book Overcoming Physical Design Challenges in Nanometer scale Integrated Circuits written by Yaoguang Wei and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Layout aware Modeling and Analysis Methodologies for Transient Radiation Effects on Integrated Circuit Electronics written by Jeffrey Scott Kauppila and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: