Blade and razor: cell and interconnect delay analysis using current-based models

John F. Croix, D. F. Wong

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Abstract

In order to adequately account for nanometer effects during timing analysis, archaic standard cell models must be replaced. Simplifying assumptions used during characterization, such as nearly linear voltage inputs or lumped-capacitance loads, are no longer valid. Signal integrity analysis further complicates the characterization process because the typical voltage waveform used during characterization does not contain a noise component. This paper introduces two new technologies for standard cell and interconnect timing analysis: Blade and Razor. Blade is a novel cell model and runtime engine based on current flow. Razor is the accompanying interconnect model. Both Blade and Razor produce and consume arbitrary voltage waveforms with near-SPICE accuracy at speeds tens of thousands of times faster than SPICE.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication40th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference - Proceedings 2003
Place of PublicationUnited States
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages386-389
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781581136883
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2003
Event40th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2003 - Anaheim, United States
Duration: 2 Jun 20036 Jun 2003
https://www.dac.com/About/Conference-Archive/40th-DAC-2003 (Conference website)
https://www.dac.com/portals/0/documents/archive/2005-01/40thfinal.pdf (Conference programme)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/775832 (Conference proceedings)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8647/proceeding (Conference proceedings)

Publication series

NameACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference - Proceedings 2003
ISSN (Print)0738-100X

Conference

Conference40th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2003
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnaheim
Period2/06/036/06/03
Internet address

User-Defined Keywords

  • blade
  • timing analysis
  • interconnect model
  • current-based model
  • recursive convolution
  • razor
  • cell model

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