VARI topics
- Modeling and Simulation of Variations: from Physics to Circuits
Global, Systematic and Random process variations - Environmental variations (Power supply,
Temperature, Electromagnetic Interferences, Ions or Electro-magnetic radiations) - Aging - Digital and Analog Design tools and Methodologies for Variability
Multi-Corners approaches including margining, Statistical approaches
Tools for variability at design, layout and post-layout levels - Measurements sensors and actuators for Digital and Analog
Process sensors, Temperature sensors, Direct and Indirect Performance sensors, Power and
Energy sensors, Power supply and voltage droop sensors, Timing slacks and faults sensors, Multisensors
fusion.
Global and Local Voltage scaling, Current biasing, Body biasing, Frequency scaling, Delay Tuning - Compensation at Digital or Analog Circuit Design Level
New digital & analog building blocks with enhanced robustness, Design centering, Operating point
tracking, Asynchronous design, desynchronized techniques, Clock tree resynchronization - Compensation at Digital or Analog Layout Level
Regular layout, Restricted Design Rules, Optical Proximity Corrections, Design For
Manufacturability - Compensation at Digital, Mixed or Analog architectural Level
Compensation loops for performances tuning, Global or distributed, static or dynamic
optimization, Tasks remapping according to hardware capabilities