NDLI: Timing analysis in presence of power supply and ground voltage variations

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Author	Ahmadi, R. Najm, F.N.
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada (Ahmadi, R.; Najm, F.N.)
Abstract	Given the sensitivity of circuit delay to supply and ground voltage values, static timing analysis (STA) must take into account supply voltage variations. Existing STA techniques allow one to verify the timing at different process corners which effectively only considers cases where all the supplies are low or all are high. Cases of mismatch between the supplies of driver and load are not considered. In practice, supply voltages are neither totally independent nor totally dependent. In this work, we consider the supply and ground nodes of a logic gate to be either totally independent variables, or to be directly tied or connected to those of some other gate(s) in the circuit. We also assume that the exact supply voltage values are not known exactly, but that only upper/lower bounds on them are known. In this framework, we propose new timing models for logic gates and identify the worst-case voltage configurations for individual gates and for simple paths. We then give an STA technique that provides the worst-case circuit delay taking supply variations into account.
Sponsorship	IEEE IEEE Circuits and Syst. Soc. IEEE Comput. Soc. ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation
Starting Page	176
Ending Page	183
File Size	652745
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581137621
DOI	10.1109/ICCAD.2003.159687
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-11-09
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Timing Power supplies Voltage Delay Inverters Logic gates Logic circuits CMOS logic circuits Circuit simulation CMOS technology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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