Event Detail
Title: Manufacturing Aware Optimization - Presented by Blaze DFM, Inc. / TSMC
Type: HOT
Track: DFM and the Manufacturing Interface
Day:
Wednesday
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 11A
Abstract: This hands-on tutorial addresses the topic of manufacturing variations and their impact on the design flow. It covers approaches for modeling and predicting manufacturing variations, and using the predicted manufacturing variation data to optimize designs using novel electrical DFM techniques.The tutorial begins with an overview of issues addressed in the TSMC DFM Design Kit (DDK). This includes a description of DFM design issues and modules provided by TSMC to EDA vendors to bring awareness of DFM effects into the chip design flow.Participants will run the BlazeTM IF fill synthesis tool from Blaze DFM, which uses a TSMC-provided density modeling engine to drive fill synthesis. Different fill synthesis considerations will be discussed, and the impact of fill on timing and timing variation will be shown.A leakage power reduction methodology using the Blaze MOTMgate-length biasing will also be presented.
