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8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07)
Statistical Timing Analysis Considering Spatial Correlations
San Jose, California
March 26-March 28
ISBN: 0-7695-2795-7
Hong Li, Purdue University, USA
Cheng-Kok Koh, Purdue University, USA
Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Purdue University, USA
Yiran Chen, Synopsys Inc., USA
In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm to predict the probability distribution of the circuit delay while accounting for spatial correlations. We exploit the structure of the covariance matrix to decouple the correlated variables to independent ones in linear-time, as opposed to conventional techniques which have a cubic-time complexity. Furthermore, we present a closed-form expression for the probability distribution of the max operation, based on which we propose a fast and accurate approximation technique. Experiments show that the proposed method is both accurate and efficient.
Citation:
Hong Li, Cheng-Kok Koh, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Yiran Chen, "Statistical Timing Analysis Considering Spatial Correlations," isqed, pp.102-107, 8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07), 2007
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