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Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE'03)
Transistor-Level Static Timing Analysis by Piecewise Quadratic Waveform Matching
Munich, Germany
March 03-March 07
ISBN: 0-7695-1870-2
Zhong Wang, University of Toronto
Jianwen Zhu, University of Toronto
While fast timing analysis methods, such as asymptotic waveform evaluation (AWE), have been well established for linear circuits, the timing analysis for non-linear circuits, which are dominant in digital CMOS circuits, is usually performed by a SPICE like, time domain integration based approach, involving expensive Newton Raphson iterations at numerous time steps. In this paper, we propose a new technique that leads to the transient solution of charge/discharge paths with a complexity equivalent to only K DC operating point calculations, where K is the number of transistors along the path. This is accomplished by approximating each nodal voltage as a piecewise quadratic waveform, whose characteristics can be determined by matching the charge/discharge currents. Experiments on a wide range of circuits show that a 31.6 times speed-up over SPICE transient simulation with 10ps step size can be achieved, while maintaining an average accuracy of 99%.
Citation:
Zhong Wang, Jianwen Zhu, "Transistor-Level Static Timing Analysis by Piecewise Quadratic Waveform Matching," date, vol. 1, pp.11026, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE'03), 2003
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