CROSS-TALK NOISE IMMUNE VLSI DESIGN USING REGULAR LAYOUT FABRICS by Robert K. Brayton, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli ( 9780792374077 )

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Title:

CROSS-TALK NOISE IMMUNE VLSI DESIGN USING REGULAR LAYOUT FABRICS

By:

Robert K. Brayton, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£109.99
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ISBN 10:

079237407X

ISBN 13:

9780792374077

Publisher:

SPRINGER

Pub. date:

30 June, 2001

Edition:

2001 ed.

Pages:

112

Description:

Cross-talk is one of the major problems since it results in unpredictable design behavior. It can result in delay variation or signal integrity problems in a wire, depending on the state of its neighboring wire. This book introduces a framework for cross-talk-free IC design. It uses a predetermined layout pattern on the IC.

Synopsis:

This book was motivated by the problems being faced with shrinking IC process feature sizes. It is well known that as process feature sizes shrink, a host of electrical problems like cross-talk, electromigration, self-heat, etc. are becoming important. Cross-talk is one of the major problems since it results in unpredictable design behavior. In particular, it can result in significant delay variation or signal integrity problems in a wire, depending on the state of its neighboring wires. Typical approaches to tackle the cross-talk problem attempt to fix the problem once it is created. In our approach, we ensure that cross-talk is eliminated by design. The work described in this book attempts to take an "outside-the-box" view and propose a radically different design style. This design style first imposes a fixed layout pattern (or fabric) on the integrated circuit, and then embeds the circuit being implemented into this fabric. The fabric is chosen carefully in order to eliminate the cross-talk problem being faced in modem IC processes. With our choice of fabric, cross-talk between adjacent wires on an IC is reduced by between one and two orders of magnitude. In this way, the fabric concept eliminates cross-talk up-front, and by design. We propose two separate design flows, each of which uses the fabric concept to implement logic. The first flow uses fabric-compliant standard cells as an im- plementation vehicle. We call these cells fabric cells, and they have the same logic functionality as existing standard cells with which they are compared.

Illustrations:

XIX, 112 p.

Publication:

Netherlands

Imprint:

Springer

Returns:

Returnable

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