Cross-Talk Noise Immune VLSI Design Using Regular Layout Fabrics
Authors: Brayton, Robert K., Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Alberto
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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.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-5
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Validating Deep Sub-Micron Effects
Pages 7-21
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VLSI Layout Fabrics
Pages 23-37
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Fabric1 — Fabric Cell Based Design
Pages 39-51
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Fabric3 — Network of PLA Based Design
Pages 53-77
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Cross-Talk Noise Immune VLSI Design Using Regular Layout Fabrics
- Authors
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- Robert K. Brayton
- Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
- Copyright
- 2001
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4615-1477-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4615-1477-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-7923-7407-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4613-5573-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 112
- Topics
