• DocumentCode
    1579814
  • Title

    An automatic cell characterization environment for cell-based design methodology

  • Author

    Wu, Chang-Sheng ; Lin, Lih-Chiou ; Chou, David ; Ting, Kuang-Cheng

  • Author_Institution
    Hualon Microelectronics Corp., Hsinchu City, Taiwan
  • fYear
    1993
  • Firstpage
    326
  • Lastpage
    329
  • Abstract
    The authors introduce an automatic cell characterization environment developed for cell-based design methodology. With its structured cell description language, automatic stimuli generation algorithm and flow event manager, varieties of cells are automatically characterized. It has been applied successfully to characterize the 1.0-μm and 0.8-μm standard cell, sea-of-gates, and full-custom cell library
  • Keywords
    application specific integrated circuits; automatic test software; cellular arrays; circuit analysis computing; hardware description languages; integrated circuit testing; logic CAD; logic arrays; logic testing; timing; ATPG; automatic cell characterization environment; automatic stimuli generation algorithm; cell-based design methodology; flow event manager; full-custom cell library; sea-of-gates; standard cell; structured cell description language; Character generation; Circuits; Data mining; Databases; Design methodology; Libraries; Pulse measurements; Switches; Timing; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    ASIC Conference and Exhibit, 1993. Proceedings., Sixth Annual IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Rochester, NY
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-1375-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ASIC.1993.410731
  • Filename
    410731