MONDAY TUTORIALS
Tutorial 3: Winning in Monte Carlo: Managing Simulations Under Variability and Reliability
Monday, June 3, 2013
Time: 11:00 AM — 1:00 PM
Location:
13AB
Topic Area:
Design for Manufacturability
| Organizers: | Trent McConaghy - Solido Design Automation, Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| | Georges Gielen - Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium |
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| Speakers: | Daniel Nenni - SemiWiki, Danville, CA |
| | Georges Gielen - Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium |
| | Yu (Kevin) Cao - Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ |
| | Trent McConaghy - Solido Design Automation, Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| | Ting Ku - NVIDIA Corp., San Jose, CA |
Summary:
Thanks to FinFETs and other process innovations, we are still shrinking devices. But it comes at a steep price: variability and reliability have become far worse, so effective design and verification is causing an explosion in simulations. First, Daniel Nenni will do the introductions and present process variation content and analytics from SemiWiki.com. Presenter Prof. Georges Gielen, will describe CAD and circuit techniques for variability and reliability.
Next, Yu (Kevin) Cao from ASU will describe how variability and aging affect bulk vs. FinFET device performance. More corners and statistical spreads will come into play, so advanced IC design tools will be needed to minimize design cycle times. Then, Trent McConaghy from Solido Design Automation, will describe industrial techniques for fast PVT, 3-sigma, and high-sigma verification. Finally, Ting Ku, Director of Engineering at Nvidia, will describe a signal integrity case study using variation-aware design techniques.
To Monte Carlo... and beyond!
Daniel Nenni has worked in Silicon Valley for the past 28 years with computer manufacturers, electronic design automation software, and semiconductor intellectual property companies. Currently Daniel is a Strategic Foundry Relationship Expert for companies wishing to partner with TSMC, UMC, SMIC, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, and their top customers. Daniel's latest passion is the
Semiconductor Wiki Project.
Georges Gielen received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium, in 1990, followed by a postdoc at Berkeley. Since 1993, he has been a Professor at KU Leuven. Since 2012 he is Chair of its Department of Electrical Engineering. He has authored or co-authored 7 books and 450 papers. His research interests include the design of AMS circuits, and AMS CAD tools. He received the 1995 Best Paper in IJCTA, and 2004 Best Paper at DATE. He became a Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy in 1997. He was President of the IEEE CAS Society in 2005.
Yu (Kevin) Cao is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University. He received the Ph.D. degree in EE from University of California, Berkeley in 2002. He has published more than 160 articles and two books. His research interests include physical modeling of nanoscale technologies, design solutions for variability and reliability, and reliable integration of post-silicon devices. Dr. Cao received the 2009 ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, the 2006 NSF CAREER Award, the 2006 and 2007 IBM Faculty Award, and several best paper awards. He has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on CAD and is a member of the IEEE EDS Compact Modeling Technical Committee.
Trent McConaghy is co-founder and CTO of Solido Design Automation. He cofounded Analog Design Automation, which Synopsys acquired in 2004. Prior to that, he did research for the Canadian Department of National Defense. His 2008 PhD from KU Leuven won the EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award (#1 in the field). He has authored 35 papers and book chapters, and 20 patents. He is author of “Variation-Aware Design of Custom Integrated Circuits: A Hands-on Field Guide” (Springer, 2012), and “Variation-Aware Analog Structural Synthesis: A Computational Intelligence Approach” (Springer, 2009). He has given invited talks at DAC, ICCAD, CICC, MIT, JPL, and more.
Ting-Sheng Ku is Director of Engineering at Nvidia, responsible for ESD solutions and circuit/signal-integrity methodology. He received a BSEE degree from University of Nevada, Las Vegas NV in 1993, and MSEE from Purdue University in 1995. He started his career as a circuit design engineer at LSI, followed by stints at Aspec and 3dfx. After joining Nvidia Corporation in 2000 as part of 3dfx transition, he has held various positions in circuit design, signal integrity, ESD, and methodology design. Mr. Ku holds 5 U.S. patents.