Title
Design Space Exploration of FinFETs with Double Fin Heights for Standard Cell Library.
Abstract
This paper proposes a method to explore the design space of FinFETs with double fin heights. Our study shows that if one fin height is sufficiently larger than the other and the greatest common divisor of their equivalent transistor widths is small, the fin height pair will incur less width quantization effect and lead to better area efficiency. We design a standard cell library based on this technology using a tailored FreePDK15. With respect to a standard cell library designed with FreePDK15, about 86% of the cells designed with FinFETs of double fin heights have a smaller delay and 54% of the cells take a smaller area. We also demonstrate the advantages of FinFETs with double fin heights through chip designs using our cell library.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ISVLSI.2016.72
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI
Keywords
Field
DocType
FinFET,standard cell library,double fin heights,layout,parasitics
Topology,Logic gate,Fin,Chip,Standard cell,Engineering,Transistor,MOSFET,Design space exploration,Parasitic extraction,Electrical engineering
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2159-3469
1
0.46
References 
Authors
3
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chi-Hung Lin121734.67
Chia-Shiang Chen210.46
Yu-He Chang310.46
Yu Ting Zhang410.46
Shang-Rong Fang561.39
Santanu Santra681.02
Rung-Bin Lin717328.42