Handsheet for full-custom circuit design

Author

Fernández-García, Natalia A. ; Brea, Victor M. ; Cabello, Diego

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

fYear

2009

fDate

19-22 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

114

Lastpage

117

Abstract

This paper addresses a transistor level design for manufacturing methodology. Design efforts are devoted to robustness against process variations. Temperature and voltage tolerances should also be tackled for mass production. A structured design methodology contemplating issues like intuitive design and Monte-Carlo simulations is proposed. As an illustrative example, the methodology is applied to the design of a cellular nonlinear network cell in UMC 130 nm CMOS technology.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Monte Carlo methods; cellular neural nets; design for manufacture; integrated circuit design; mass production; CMOS technology; Monte-Carlo simulations; cellular nonlinear network cell; design for manufacture; full-custom circuit design; mass production; process variations; size 130 nm; temperature tolerance; voltage tolerance; Appropriate technology; CMOS technology; Cellular networks; Cellular neural networks; Circuit synthesis; Computer science; Design methodology; Microelectronics; Pulp manufacturing; Robustness;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronics (ICM), 2009 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Marrakech

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5814-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICM.2009.5418678

Filename

5418678