Name
Abstract | ||
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As technology continues to scale beyond 100nm, there is a significant increase in performance uncertainty of CMOS logic due to process and environmental variations.Traditional circuit optimization methods assuming deterministic gate delays produce a flat "wall" of equally critical paths, resulting in variation-sensitive designs.This paper describes a new method for sizing of digital circuits, with uncertain gate delays, to minimize their performance variation leading to a higher parametric yield.The method is based on adding margins on each gate delay to account for variations and using a new "soft maximum" function to combine path delays at converging nodes.Using analytic models to predict the means and standard deviations of gate delays as posynomial functions of the device sizes, we create a simple, computationally efficient heuristic for uncertainty-aware sizing of digital circuits via Geometric programming.Monte-Carlo simulations on custom 32bit adders and ISCAS'85 benchmarks show that about 10% to 20% delay reduction over deterministic sizing methods can be achieved, without any additional cost in area. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2005 | 10.1109/ISQED.2005.11 | ISQED |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
uncertainty-aware sizing,gate delay,robust digital circuits,new method,path delay,delay reduction,deterministic sizing method,digital circuit,performance uncertainty,deterministic gate delay,uncertain gate delay,monte carlo methods,design methodology,robustness,uncertainty,cmos logic,solid modeling,standard deviations,adders,32 bit,monte carlo simulation,critical path,integrated circuit design,cmos technology,standard deviation,digital circuits,logic design,geometric programming,monte carlo simulations | Delay calculation,Logic synthesis,Digital electronics,Adder,Computer science,CMOS,Real-time computing,Electronic engineering,Integrated circuit design,Sizing,Geometric programming | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
0-7695-2301-3 | 32 | 1.77 |
References | Authors | |
11 | 6 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dinesh Patil | 1 | 54 | 5.91 |
| Sunghee Yun | 2 | 72 | 7.33 |
| Seung-Jean Kim | 3 | 1845 | 121.96 |
| Alvin Cheung | 4 | 466 | 36.20 |
| Mark Horowitz | 5 | 6374 | 1543.34 |
| Stephen Boyd | 6 | 13540 | 1132.29 |