Transistor level gate modeling for accurate and fast timing, noise, and power analysis

Current source based cell models are becoming a necessity for accurate timing and noise analysis at 65nm and below. Voltage waveform shapes are increasingly more difficult to represent as simple ramps due to highly resistive interconnects and Miller cap effects at receiver gates. Propagation of complex voltage waveforms, and accurate modeling of nonlinear driver and receiver effects in crosstalk noise analysis require accurate cell models. A good cell model should be independent of input waveform and output load, should be easy to characterize and should not increase the complexity of a cell library with high-dimensional look-up tables. At the same time, it should provide high accuracy compared to SPICE for all analysis scenarios including multiple-input switching, and for all cell types and cell arcs, including those with high stacks. It should also be easily extendable for use in statistical STA and noise analysis, and one should be able to simulate it fast enough for practical use ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: DAC
• Authors: S. Raja, F. Varadi, Murat R. Becer, Joao Geada
• Keywords: Accurate Cell Models, Crosstalk Noise Analysis, DAC 2008, Design Automation, Source Based Cell