Title :
Design analysis of IC power delivery
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA
Abstract :
Power delivery design plays a critical role in ensuring power delivery integrity and achieving overall design power efficiency. A power delivery network (PDN) consists of a multiplicity of passive and active components, which interact with each other in a complex manner. Under this context, power delivery design is a multifaceted problem and a holistic system optimization involving joint design of the passive distribution sub-network and active voltage converters and regulators is indispensable. This paper provides a succinct review of the related PDN analysis and design problems and motivates the need for system-level co-optimization of key design parameters in order to optimally trade off between power supply noise, power efficiency, area overhead and stability.
Keywords :
integrated circuit design; optimisation; power convertors; power supply circuits; IC power delivery design analysis; PDN analysis; active component; active voltage converter; holistic system optimization; passive distribution subnetwork component; power delivery integrity; power delivery network; power efficiency; power stability; power supply noise; system-level cooptimization; Integrated circuit modeling; Noise; Optimization; Regulators; System-on-a-chip; Transistors; Voltage control;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
