Manufacturability analysis of standard cell libraries

Time-to-market and resource limitations typically drive fabless design houses to invest in commercial standard cell libraries. Selecting the appropriate library, however, is nontrivial, and is made harder when only a few select cells are provided for analysis. In this paper a methodology is presented to efficiently compare multiple cell libraries from a manufacturability perspective. In addition, an application is presented that indicates the effort required to build an internal library may be well warranted for high volume designs