Design flow of robust routed power distribution for low power ASIC

Author

Kang, Dae Woon ; Kim, Yong-Bin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northeast Univ. of Technol., Shenyang, China

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM

Abstract

This paper deals with a detailed systematic methodology to design power and ground distribution networks in low power ASICs. A design flow for determining the width of each branch in the power and ground networks meeting the design requirements is presented, along with a design example, where the objective is to minimize the area of the power and ground networks for several given constraints such as IR drop and EM. This methodology was applied to a low power speech recognition ASIC design and was successfully verified.

Keywords

VLSI; application specific integrated circuits; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit interconnections; low-power electronics; power supply circuits; EM; IR drop; area; design flow; design requirements; ground distribution networks; low power ASIC; power distribution networks; robust routed power distribution; speech recognition ASIC; systematic methodology; Application specific integrated circuits; Design methodology; Driver circuits; Power distribution; Power systems; Robustness; Routing; Speech recognition; Variable structure systems; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2002. ISCAS 2002. IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7448-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2002.1009807

Filename

1009807