Electrically Aware Design Flow for Sub-micron Technologies

Abstract

With increase in design complexity and stringent Time to Market (TTM) requirements, it is important that productivity improvement measures are taken to help designers to be in pace with the demands. At each phase of the design there are utilities which help improve the productivity by incorporating design automation and information feed forwarding. This project is aimed at enabling an electrically aware backend design ow which will try to improve the productivity of Mask Designers by feed forwarding electrical parameters early in the design ow so that the number of iterations in the backend design ow is minimized, and better turnaround time is obtained.