Efficient VCO phase macromodel generation considering statistical parametric variations

Authors:
Wei Dong;Zhuo Feng;Peng Li
Affiliations:
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX;Texas A&M University, College Station, TX;Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Year:
2007

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Abstract

With the growing concern of process variability, parameterized circuit models are becoming increasingly important for circuit design and verification. Although techniques exist to extract compact VCO phase macromodels, a direct parametrization of VCO macromodels over a large set of parametric variations not only results in highly complex models, but also leads to significantly high computational cost. In this paper, an efficient parameterized VCO phase model generation technique is presented to capture the impacts of statistical parametric variations. The model extraction cost of our approach is significantly reduced by exploiting circuit-specific parameter dimension reduction, which effectively reduces the parameter space dimension over which the phase model needs to be extracted. The application of parameter reduction is facilitated by a novel and fast time-domain sampling technique that provides the essential statistical correlation data. Our numerical experiments have shown that the proposed model generation approach is more efficient than brute-force parametric modeling while producing accurate parameterized phase models that can capture large range parametric variations.