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First International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design
Enabling DIR(Designing-In-Reliability) through CAD Capabilities
San Jose, California
March 20-March 22
ISBN: 0-7695-0525-2
Wonjae Kang, Intel
Brad Potts, Advanced Micro Devices
Ray Hokinson, Compaq
John Riley, Lucent Technologies
David Doman, Motorola
Frank Cano, Texas Instruments
N.S. Nagaraj, Texas Instruments
Noel Durrant, SEMATECH
Chip designs are continuously getting larger and more complex. In response to these trends, design methodologies and tool requirements used in recent high-performance designs have been changing rapidly. A Design-In Reliability Team was formed at SEMATECH and is composed of DIR and CAD tool experts from the member companies. The team's primary goals are to define and develop tool requirement needs of the members and to communicate those needs to the EDA industry, in turn fostering development of new and improved tools. In this paper, the DIR project goals and recommendations will be presented along with prioritized tool needs or gaps. The tool gaps are put in two categories: CAD tool/data interface and DIR point solutions. CAD tool/data interface deals with core design tools that enable correct-by-construction such as reliability-constraint place-and-route tools. The DIR point solutions refer to reliability simulation or verification tools. Moreover high-level tool requirements on top five prioritized tool requirements will be presented. In addition, maturity matrix on DIR tool capabilities will be presented in order to show both current and future DIR tool gaps. Also, a high-level roadmap of the team and future projects will be presented. Chip designs are continuously getting larger and more complex. In response to these trends, design methodologies and tool requirements used in recent high-performance designs have been changing rapidly. A Design-In Reliability Team was formed at SEMATECH and is composed of DIR and CAD tool experts from the member companies. The team's primary goals are to define and develop tool requirement needs of the members and to communicate those needs to the EDA industry, in turn fostering development of new and improved tools. In this paper, the DIR project goals and recommendations will be presented along with prioritized tool needs or gaps. The tool gaps are put in two categories: CAD tool/data interface and DIR point solutions. CAD tool/data interface deals with core design tools that enable correct-by-construction such as reliability-constraint place-and-route tools. The DIR point solutions refer to reliability simulation or verification tools. Moreover high-level tool requirements on top five prioritized tool requirements will be presented. In addition, maturity matrix on DIR tool capabilities will be presented in order to show both current and future DIR tool gaps. Also, a high-level roadmap of the team and future projects will be presented.
Index Terms:
reliability, SEMATECH, Design tools, design-in-reliability
Citation:
Wonjae Kang, Brad Potts, Ray Hokinson, John Riley, David Doman, Frank Cano, N.S. Nagaraj, Noel Durrant, "Enabling DIR(Designing-In-Reliability) through CAD Capabilities," isqed, pp.151, First International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design, 2000
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