Variation-Aware Design of Custom Integrated Circuits A Hands-on Field Guide [Hardcover]

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.

This book targets custom IC designers who are encountering variation issues in their designs, especially for modern process nodes at 45nm and below. It sets out state-of-the-art variation-aware design tools that will help them fix their problems efficiently.

Introduction.- Fast PTV Verification and Design.- Pictoral Primer on Probablilities.- 3-Sigma Verification and Design.- High-Sigma Verification and Design.- Variation-Aware Design.- Conclusion.

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.? The authors have created a field guide to show how to handle variation proactively, and to understand the benefits of doing so. Readers facing variation challenges in their memory, standard cell, analog/RF, and custom digital designs will find easy-to-read, pragmatic solutions.??

• Reviews the most important concepts in variation-aware design, including types of variables and variation, useful variation-aware design terminology, and an overview and comparison of high-level design flows.
• Describes and compares a suite of approaches and flows for PVT corner-driven design and verificatl3&