Variation-Aware Design of Custom Integrated Circuits: A Hands-on Field Guide

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.

Documents the state-of-the-art in industrial-scale, variation-aware, custom integrated circuit design Describes the capabilities and benefits of modern Variation-Aware tools and shows how to benchmark such tools during evaluations Discusses the algorithms used in state-of-the-art Variation-Aware CAD tools and explains the algorithms' behaviors, experimental results and limitations Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

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