Variation-Aware Design of Custom Integrated Circuits: A Hands-on Field Guide, 2013

This book targets custom IC designers who are encountering variation issues in their designs, especially for modern process nodes at 45nm and below, such as statistical process variations, environmental variations, and layout effects.  It teaches them the state-of-the-art in Variation-Aware Design tools, which help the designer to analyze quickly the variation effects, identify the problems, and fix the problems. Furthermore, this book describes the algorithms and algorithm behavior/performance/limitations, which is of use to designers considering these tools, designers using these tools, CAD researchers, and CAD managers.

Documents the state-of-the-art in industrial-scale, variation-aware, custom integrated circuit design Describes the capabilities and benefits of modern Variation-Aware tools and shows how to benchmark such tools during evaluations Discusses the algorithms used in state-of-the-art Variation-Aware CAD tools and explains the algorithms’ behaviors, experimental results and limitations Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras