On-silicon validation of a benchmark generation methodology for effectively evaluating combinational cell library design

Carvalho, Maurício; Altieri, Mauricio; Puricelli, Lauro Scheffer; Butzen, Paulo F.; Ribas, Renato P.; Fabris, Eric

doi:10.1109/latw.2016.7483353

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“…An ASIC was designed to correlate the simulation results with silicon results [1], [4]. The ASIC consists of the standard cells along with peripheral circuit required to measure delay and power of an individual standard cell.…”

Section: Asic Design For Standard Cell Verificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Chip Architecture for Silicon Characterization of Foundry Kit Standard Cells

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Gautam³

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Standard cell libraries are an integral part of converting an RTL to a manufacturable physical design. The automatic place and route EDA tools use these characterized standard cell libraries to arrive at an optimal design within given constraints. The correlation between characterized data and the actual behaviour of cells on Silicon is critical for meeting the desired performance of the manufactured chip. In this paper, we present a modular design and measurement method which can be implemented in an ASIC for correlating the characteristics of the standard cell library. This method simplifies the design of the package and the test board and relatively simple test equipment can be used to measure the silicon characteristics. The ASIC presented in this paper was designed in 180nm for characterizing standard cells, which are delivered as part of the foundry design kit.

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Section: Asic Design For Standard Cell Verificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The availability of a large number of library cells provides larger ASIC design space which improves overall circuit design and area. The standard cell libraries can be enriched by adding new drive strengths [1], through the addition of new functions [2] or even with special transistor topologies [3].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%