Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronics (ICM), 2009 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Marrakech
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5814-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICM.2009.5418678
