DTCO exploration for efficient standard cell power rails

Bharani Chava; Julien Ryckaert; Luca Mattii; Syed Muhammad Yasser Sherazi; Peter Debacker; Alessio Spessot; Diederik Verkest

doi:10.1117/12.2293500

20 March 2018 DTCO exploration for efficient standard cell power rails

Bharani Chava, Julien Ryckaert, Luca Mattii, Syed Muhammad Yasser Sherazi, Peter Debacker, Alessio Spessot, Diederik Verkest

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Proceedings Volume 10588, Design-Process-Technology Co-optimization for Manufacturability XII; 105880B (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293500
Event: SPIE Advanced Lithography, 2018, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Standard cell track height scaling has been identified as an option to provide significant area savings. A direct consequence of track height reduction is that the width of the power rails needs to be reduced to accommodate patterning constraints as well as leave sufficient tracks for routing. Narrower power rails are highly resistive, reducing the headroom near an operating cell due to IR drop, which is not acceptable. For example, a 20% performance loss is observed due to a 10% supply voltage drop. To worsen the situation of IR drop, a slowdown in CPP scaling and newer metallization options are making the power rail highly sensitive and its design choice is a widely debated topic in the industry. Therefore, we propose an approach to define the power rail specifications and some feasible technology solutions to solve the power grid bottleneck.

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Bharani Chava, Julien Ryckaert, Luca Mattii, Syed Muhammad Yasser Sherazi, Peter Debacker, Alessio Spessot, and Diederik Verkest "DTCO exploration for efficient standard cell power rails", Proc. SPIE 10588, Design-Process-Technology Co-optimization for Manufacturability XII, 105880B (20 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293500

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