An Accurate Process-Induced Variability-Aware Compact Model-Based Circuit Performance Estimation for Design-Technology Co-Optimization

Process-voltage-temperature Aware Nanoscale Circuit Optimization

An Optimization-Based Approach for Analog Circuit Design

An efficient approach to optimize the performance of integrated analog circuits is described. The main objectives are to speed up the design process and obtain better, possibly optimal, performance compared to manual simulation-based device sizing schemes. The automatic generation of the cost function requires only a circuit netlist, a performance specification, and process parameters supplied ...

An Equation-based Optimization Approach for Analog Circuit Design

An efficient approach and an associated tool to optimize the performance of integrated analog circuits is described. The main objectives with the approach are to significantly speed up the design process and to obtain better overall, possibly optimal, circuit performance compared to a manual, simulation-based, approach. In order to achieve good agreement with circuit simulators high accuracy tr...

Reliability Aware Circuit Optimization

A Circuit Technique for Variability- Aware Design of an Sram Cell

The primary motivation behind aggressive device scaling is to achieve improved performance and increased integration. These improvements come at the cost of increased sensitivity to PVT variations and standby leakage, particularly in area-constrained circuit such as SRAM that employs minimum-geometry devices. An attempt is made in this work to mitigate these problems in traditional 6T SRAM cell...