Conference Program    Technical Session

TUESDAY, July 25, 2006, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Room: 303
TOPIC AREA:  INTERCONNECT RELIABILITY AND DFM


   SESSION 5
  Practical Applications of DFM
  Chair: Nagib Hakim - Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA
  Organizers: Michael Orshansky

  Design for manufacturing is starting the transition from a purely back-end application of resolution enhancement techniques to a rich set of tools and analysis techniques to improve the yield and manufacturability of a variety of different integrated circuit components. This session shows three interesting applications: SRAM - where the impact of manufacturing variability is paramount, systematic yield detractors - which are often found to be specific layout constructs, and, path delay variation - which are a major source of timing yield loss.

  5.1   Statistical Analysis of SRAM Cell Stability
  Speaker(s): Kanak B. Agarwal - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
  Author(s): Kanak B. Agarwal - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
Sani R. Nassif - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
  5.2  Criticality Computation in Parameterized Statistical Timing
  Speaker(s): Jinjun Xiong - Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
  Author(s): Jinjun Xiong - Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
Vladimir Zolotov - IBM Corp., Yorktown Heights, NY
Natesan Venkateswaran - IBM Corp., Hopewell Junction, NY
Chandu Visweswariah - IBM Corp., Yorktown Heights, NY
  5.3s  Mixture Importance Sampling and Its Application to the Analysis of SRAM Designs in the Presence of Rare Failure Events
  Speaker(s): Rouwaida N. Kanj - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
  Author(s): Rouwaida N. Kanj - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
Rajiv V. Joshi - IBM Corp., Yorktown Heights , NY
Sani R. Nassif - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
  5.4s  An Up-stream Design Auto-fix Flow for Manufacturability Enhancement
  Speaker(s): Ethan Cohen - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, TX
  Author(s): Jie Yang - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Ethan Cohen - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, TX
Cyrus Tabery - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Norma Rodriguez - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Mark Craig - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, TX