Download or read book Variation aware Timing Analysis and Optimization for Digital ICs written by Jiayong Le and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Circuit Performance Verification and Optimization in the Presence of Variability written by Sari Onaissi and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continued scaling of digital integrated circuits has led to an increasingly larger impact of process, supply voltage, and temperature (PVT) variations. The effect of these variations on logic cell and interconnect delays has introduced challenges to both circuit performance (timing) verification and optimization. In order for us to fully take advantage of the benefits of technology scaling, it is essential that "variation-aware" techniques for performance verification and optimization be developed and used in modern design flows.In this thesis such techniques for both performance verification and optimization are presented. First, we present a fast method for finding the worst-case slacks over all process and environmental corners. This method uses the standard set of PVT corners available in industry, and provides large runtime gains while maintaining a high degree of accuracy. After that, we propose an efficient block-based parameterized timing analysis technique that can accurately capture circuit delays at every point in the parameter space, by reporting all paths that can become critical. This method employs parameterized static timing analysis (PSTA) variability models, and allows one to easily examine local robustness to parameters in different regions of the parameter space. Next, we introduce an optimization method that alters clock network lines so that a circuit meets its timing constraints at all PVT settings under PSTA variability models. This is formulated as a Linear Program (LP), which is based on a clock skew optimization formulation, and as a result it can be solved efficiently. Finally, we present a method that uses characterized, pre-silicon, PSTA variational timing models to identify speedpaths that can best explain the observed delay measurements during silicon debug. This is a crucial step, required for both "fixing"' failing paths and for accurate learning from silicon data.
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 Timing Analysis and Optimization of Sequential Circuits written by Naresh Maheshwari and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen rapid strides in the level of sophistication of VLSI circuits. On the performance front, there is a vital need for techniques to design fast, low-power chips with minimum area for increasingly complex systems, while on the economic side there is the vastly increased pressure of time-to-market. These pressures have made the use of CAD tools mandatory in designing complex systems. Timing Analysis and Optimization of Sequential Circuits describes CAD algorithms for analyzing and optimizing the timing behavior of sequential circuits with special reference to performance parameters such as power and area. A unified approach to performance analysis and optimization of sequential circuits is presented. The state of the art in timing analysis and optimization techniques is described for circuits using edge-triggered or level-sensitive memory elements. Specific emphasis is placed on two methods that are true sequential timing optimizations techniques: retiming and clock skew optimization. Timing Analysis and Optimization of Sequential Circuits covers the following topics: Algorithms for sequential timing analysis Fast algorithms for clock skew optimization and their applications Efficient techniques for retiming large sequential circuits Coupling sequential and combinational optimizations. Timing Analysis and Optimization of Sequential Circuits is written for graduate students, researchers and professionals in the area of CAD for VLSI and VLSI circuit design.
Download or read book Timing written by Sachin Sapatnekar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of nanometer technologies, circuit performance constraints are becoming ever more stringent. In this context, automated timing analysis and optimization becomes imperative for the design of high-performance circuits that must satisfy a demanding set of constraints. Timing overviews the state of the art in timing analysis and optimization, and is intended to serve as a compendium that can provide an introduction to the uninitiated reader, as a ready reference for a practitioner, or as a source for the accomplished researcher. A comprehensive overview of the basics of timing analysis is provided, and this is augmented with techniques that incorporate physical effects arising in deep submicron and nanometer technologies. The book provides an in-depth treatment of the analysis of interconnect systems, static timing analysis for combinational circuits, timing analysis for sequential circuits, and timing optimization techniques at the transistor and layout levels. The intended audience includes CAD tool developers, graduate students, research professionals, and the merely curious.
Download or read book Integrated Circuit and System Design Power and Timing Modeling Optimization and Simulation written by José L. Ayala and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Integrated Circuit and System Design, PATMOS 2012, held in Newcastle, UK Spain, in September 2012. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The paper feature emerging challenges in methodologies and tools for the design of upcoming generations of integrated circuits and systems, including reconfigurable hardware such as FPGAs. The technical program focus on timing, performance and power consumption as well as architectural aspects with particular emphasis on modeling, design, characterization, analysis and optimization.
Download or read book Nanoelectronic Mixed Signal System Design written by Saraju Mohanty and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering both the classical and emerging nanoelectronic technologies being used in mixed-signal design, this book addresses digital, analog, and memory components. Winner of the Association of American Publishers' 2016 PROSE Award in the Textbook/Physical Sciences & Mathematics category. Nanoelectronic Mixed-Signal System Design offers professionals and students a unified perspective on the science, engineering, and technology behind nanoelectronics system design. Written by the director of the NanoSystem Design Laboratory at the University of North Texas, this comprehensive guide provides a large-scale picture of the design and manufacturing aspects of nanoelectronic-based systems. It features dual coverage of mixed-signal circuit and system design, rather than just digital or analog-only. Key topics such as process variations, power dissipation, and security aspects of electronic system design are discussed. Top-down analysis of all stages--from design to manufacturing Coverage of current and developing nanoelectronic technologies--not just nano-CMOS Describes the basics of nanoelectronic technology and the structure of popular electronic systems Reveals the techniques required for design excellence and manufacturability
Download or read book Aging Aware Timing Analysis of Digital Integrated Circuits for Varying Use Profiles written by Veit B. Kleeberger and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Circuit Timing and Leakage Analysis in the Presence of Variability written by Khaled R. Heloue and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Efficient Design of Variation Resilient Ultra Low Energy Digital Processors written by Hans Reyserhove and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book enables readers to achieve ultra-low energy digital system performance. The author’s main focus is the energy consumption of microcontroller architectures in digital (sub)-systems. The book covers a broad range of topics extensively: from circuits through design strategy to system architectures. The result is a set of techniques and a context to realize minimum energy digital systems. Several prototype silicon implementations are discussed, which put the proposed techniques to the test. The achieved results demonstrate an extraordinary combination of variation-resilience, high speed performance and ultra-low energy.
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 Static Timing Analysis for Nanometer Designs written by J. Bhasker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-03 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: iming, timing, timing! That is the main concern of a digital designer charged with designing a semiconductor chip. What is it, how is it T described, and how does one verify it? The design team of a large digital design may spend months architecting and iterating the design to achieve the required timing target. Besides functional verification, the t- ing closure is the major milestone which dictates when a chip can be - leased to the semiconductor foundry for fabrication. This book addresses the timing verification using static timing analysis for nanometer designs. The book has originated from many years of our working in the area of timing verification for complex nanometer designs. We have come across many design engineers trying to learn the background and various aspects of static timing analysis. Unfortunately, there is no book currently ava- able that can be used by a working engineer to get acquainted with the - tails of static timing analysis. The chip designers lack a central reference for information on timing, that covers the basics to the advanced timing veri- cation procedures and techniques.
Download or read book EDA for IC Implementation Circuit Design and Process Technology written by Luciano Lavagno and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a comprehensive overview of the design automation algorithms, tools, and methodologies used to design integrated circuits, the Electronic Design Automation for Integrated Circuits Handbook is available in two volumes. The second volume, EDA for IC Implementation, Circuit Design, and Process Technology, thoroughly examines real-time logic to GDSII (a file format used to transfer data of semiconductor physical layout), analog/mixed signal design, physical verification, and technology CAD (TCAD). Chapters contributed by leading experts authoritatively discuss design for manufacturability at the nanoscale, power supply network design and analysis, design modeling, and much more. Save on the complete set.
Download or read book Timing Analysis and Optimization for High performance Digital Circuits written by Yuji Kukimoto and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Process Variations and Probabilistic Integrated Circuit Design written by Manfred Dietrich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncertainty in key parameters within a chip and between different chips in the deep sub micron area plays a more and more important role. As a result, manufacturing process spreads need to be considered during the design process. Quantitative methodology is needed to ensure faultless functionality, despite existing process variations within given bounds, during product development. This book presents the technological, physical, and mathematical fundamentals for a design paradigm shift, from a deterministic process to a probability-orientated design process for microelectronic circuits. Readers will learn to evaluate the different sources of variations in the design flow in order to establish different design variants, while applying appropriate methods and tools to evaluate and optimize their design.
Download or read book Integrated Circuit and System Design Power and Timing Modeling Optimization and Simulation written by José Monteiro and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of 19th International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation, PATMOS 2009, featuring Integrated Circuit and System Design, held in Delft, The Netherlands during September 9-11, 2009. The 26 revised full papers and 10 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on variability & statistical timing, circuit level techniques, power management, low power circuits & technology, system level techniques, power & timing optimization techniques, self-timed circuits, low power circuit analysis & optimization, and low power design studies.
