A Viable and Recommended Alternative to AOCV for Variation Aware Static Timing Analysis 一个可行的和推荐的替代aocv的变化感知静态时序分析方法.pdfVIP

Parametric OCV A Viable and Recommended Alternative to AOCV for Variation Aware Static Timing Analysis Khaled Heloue Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. March 25, 2014 SNUG Silicon Valley SNUG 2014 1 Outline Motivation Margining Evolution Experiments Future work Conclusions SNUG 2014 2 Motivation Timing in the Presence of Variability SNUG 2014 3 Motivation • Process and environmental variations (e.g. supply voltage and temperature) impact circuit timing and lead to timing violations • Global variations can be captured well by running static timing analysis at multiple PVT corners • Traditional corner-based timing methodologies cannot handle local within-die variations – Technology scaling makes local process variations more pronounced • Need for variation-aware timing analysis tools and methodologies to accurately predict the impact of local variations SNUG 2014 4 Background Margining Evolution in PrimeTime SNUG 2014 5 From Simple and Advanced OCV… • OCV: global/flat timing derate (e.g. 20% variability: 1.2 late derate, 0.8 early derate) • AOCV: depth-based derate table to model the statistical random cancellation (i.e. delay variability decreases with path depth) – In AOCV, the random cancellation model is provided to the tool. The tool identifies path depth and