Characterizing process variation in nanometer CMOS

  • Authors:
  • Kanak Agarwal;Sani Nassif

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Corporation, Austin, TX;IBM Corporation, Austin, TX

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 44th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The correlation of a statistical analysis tool to hardware depends on the accuracy of underlying variation models. The models should represent actual process behavior as measured in silicon. In this paper, we present an overview of test structures for characterizing statistical variation of process parameters. We discuss the test structure design and characterization strategy for calibrating random and layout dependent systematic components of process variation. We also show measurement results from several fabricated structures in 65-nm CMOS technologies.