• DocumentCode
    2155124
  • Title

    Corner models: Inaccurate at best, and it only gets worst …

  • Author

    McAndrew, Colin C. ; Ik-Sung Lim ; Braswell, Brandt ; Garrity, Douglas

  • Author_Institution
    Freescale Semicond., Tempe, AZ, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    22-25 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Corner (best- and worst-case) models have been a mainstay of integrated circuit design for decades. Obviously they can be effective, especially for digital CMOS design. However, there are significant inaccuracies that arise when digital CMOS corner models are used for analog circuits, or any types of circuits or measures of circuit performance they were not targeted for. This paper details what corner models can and cannot do, and shows their inadequacies for analog CMOS circuits.
  • Keywords
    CMOS analogue integrated circuits; CMOS digital integrated circuits; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit modelling; analog CMOS circuits; corner models; digital CMOS design; integrated circuit design; CMOS integrated circuits; Computational modeling; Gain; Integrated circuit modeling; Resistance; Resistors; Semiconductor device modeling;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2013 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CICC.2013.6658428
  • Filename
    6658428
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2155124