IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI: Emerging VLSI Technologies and Architectures (ISVLSI'06)
Metal Fix and Power Network Repair for SOC
Karlsruhe, Germany
March 02-March 03
ISBN: 0-7695-2533-4
This paper shows the design flowchart to do metal fix in Chameleon CS2112. CS2112 is an integrated SOC system in one chip with a fabric circuit of 84 processors, 48 local memories, ARC processor, memory controller, PCI controller, DMA configuration subsystems and programmed I/Os. The first silicon failed due to the hold time problem at program I/Os and large IR drop at the center of the chip. The advantage of metal fixes will reduce the mask cost for bug fixing found in silicon. There are a couple of problems to be addressed in the post-silicon metal fixing. Make sure the simulation result in the old design to match the silicon measurement and the simulation setup provides the accuracy for metal fix to predict the performance in new silicon.
Citation:
Qing K. Zhu, Paige Kolze, "Metal Fix and Power Network Repair for SOC," isvlsi, pp.33-37, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI: Emerging VLSI Technologies and Architectures (ISVLSI'06), 2006