Addressing noise decoupling in mixed-signal IC´s: power distribution design and cell customization

Author

Stanisic, Balsha R. ; Rutenbar, Rob A. ; Carley, L.R.

Author_Institution

IBM Corp., Rochester, MN, USA

Volume

30

Issue

3

fYear

1995

fDate

3/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

321

Lastpage

326

Abstract

An important and largely unexplored aspect of power distribution synthesis is cell customization. Through automatic cell customization, power I/O cell assignments and local substrate and power supply decoupling may be tailored to reduce deleterious noise effects on analog circuits in mixed-signal environments. Techniques for simultaneous power grid design (topology and sizing) and cell configuration/customization are described that allow designers to handle more difficult chip-level noise problems. Synthesis results on an industrial mixed-signal example demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach

Keywords

circuit layout CAD; integrated circuit layout; integrated circuit modelling; integrated circuit noise; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; ASIC layout; analog circuits; automatic cell customization; chip-level noise problems; local substrate/power supply decoupling; mixed-signal ICs; noise decoupling; power I/O cell assignments; power distribution design; simultaneous power grid design; Analog circuits; Circuit noise; Circuit synthesis; Circuit topology; Integrated circuit noise; Noise reduction; Power distribution; Power grids; Power supplies; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4.364449

Filename

364449