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2007 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Fast Buffered Delay Estimation Considering Process Variations
Yokohama
January 23-January 26
ISBN: 1-4244-0629-3
null Tien-Ting Fang, Dept. of Comput. Sci., National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu
null Ting-Chi Wang, Dept. of Comput. Sci., National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu
Advanced process technologies impose more significant challenges especially when manufactured circuits exhibit substantial process variations. Consideration of process variations becomes critical to ensure high parametric timing yield. During the design stage, fast estimation of the achievable buffered delay can navigate more accurate and efficient wire planning and timing analysis in floorplanning or global routing. In this paper, we derive approximated first-order canonical forms for buffered delay estimation which considers the effect of process variations and the presence of buffer blockages. We empirically show that an existing deterministic delay estimation method is over-pessimistic and thus result in unnecessary design rollback. The experimental results also show that our method can estimate buffered delay with 4% average error but achieve up to 149 times speedup when compared to a state-of-the-art statistical buffer insertion method.
Index Terms:
statistical buffer insertion method, buffered delay estimation, process variations, first-order canonical forms, buffer blockages, deterministic delay estimation method
Citation:
null Tien-Ting Fang, null Ting-Chi Wang, "Fast Buffered Delay Estimation Considering Process Variations," asp-dac, pp.702-707, 2007 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2007
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