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  • A New Statistical Timing Analysis Using Gaussian Mixture Models for Delay and Slew Propagated Together

    Shingo TAKAHASHI  Shuji TSUKIYAMA  

     
    PAPER-VLSI Design Technology and CAD

      Vol:
    E92-A No:3
      Page(s):
    900-911

    In order to improve the performance of the existing statistical timing analysis, slew distributions must be taken into account and a mechanism to propagate them together with delay distributions along signal paths is necessary. This paper introduces Gaussian mixture models to represent the slew and delay distributions, and proposes a novel algorithm for statistical timing analysis. The algorithm propagates a pair of delay and slew in a given circuit graph, and changes the delay distributions of circuit elements dynamically by propagated slews. The proposed model and algorithm are evaluated by comparing with Monte Carlo simulation. The experimental results show that the accuracy improvement in µ+3σ value of maximum delay is up to 4.5 points from the current statistical timing analysis using Gaussian distributions.