IEICE Transactions on Electronics
Online ISSN : 1745-1353
Print ISSN : 0916-8524
Special Section on Advanced Technologies in Digital LSIs and Memories
Statistical Corner Conditions of Interconnect Delay (Corner LPE Specifications)
Kenta YAMADANoriaki ODA
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2008 Volume E91.C Issue 4 Pages 562-570

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Timing closure in LSI design is becoming more and more difficult. But the conventional interconnect RC extraction method has over-margins caused by its corner conditions settings. In this paper, statistical corner conditions using the independence of variations between process parameters and between interconnect layers are proposed, with examinations using the measurement data. As a result of the method, the fast-to-slow guardband decreases by half in average, compared to the conventional method. The proposed method is ready for implementation to LPE tools.
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© 2008 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
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