This paper describes a fully automatic standard-cell layout synthesis system, CELLERITY: The system is JexibEe in supporting a wide variety ofprocess technologies and a range of library template styles. The tool is fully automatic and provides several options to the user to customize the layout template. The tool considers performance and yield and generates dense, design-rule correct layouts. Experimental results indicate that the area of CELLERlTY-generated standard cells is competitive with manually designed cells in a majority of circuits. In block-level tests of industrial circuits, standard-cell blocks generated using CELLERITY cells are about equal to the block area produced by using a manually-designed library. Recently, an embedded microcontroller in a state-of-the-art sub-micron process technology was fabricated using CELLERITY-generated standard cells.
Purpose
This paper aims to consolidate the constructs of national responsibility (NR) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of corporate responsibilities. The paper traces the historical evolution of the concepts of NR and CSR with a discussion on bridging CSR with NR. The aim of this paper is to develop an understanding of the potential of CSR to support NR.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper reviews the historical evolution of the CSR and NR concepts to identify how CSR can be integrated and focused towards supporting NR.
Findings
NR needs partnership and support from the corporate and commercial world to direct its efforts towards effective implementation of CSR to ensure NR.
Practical implications
The paper offers the implications for the development of a powerful CSR, its relation with NR and how the linkage should be developed at an organizational level.
Originality/value
This research paper fulfils the need to study the role of CSR in supporting the NR at a corporate level.
This paper describes a fully automatic standard-cell layout synthesis system, CELLERITY. The system is flexible in supporting a wide variety of process technologies and a range of library template styles. The tool is fully automatic and provides several options to the user to customize the layout template. The tool considers performance and yield and generates dense, design-rule correct layouts. Experimental results indicate that the area of CELLERITY-generated standard cells is competitive with manually designed cells in a majority of circuits. In block-level tests of industrial circuits, standard-cell blocks generated using CELLERITY cells are about equal to the block area produced by using a manually-designed library. Recently, an embedded microcontroller in a state-of-the-art sub-micron process technology was fabricated using CELLERITY-generated standard cells.
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