Conference Program    Technical Session

THURSDAY, July 27, 2006, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Room: 306-308
TOPIC AREA:  INTERCONNECT RELIABILITY AND DFM


   SESSION 58
  Advanced Methods for Interconnect Extraction, Clocks and Reliability
  Chair: Arvind NV - Texas Instruments Inc., Bangalore, India
  Organizers: Farid N. Najm, Nagaraj NS

  This session covers clock skew minimization, parallel matrix compression for parasitic extraction and reliability design methods for NBTI and gate oxide reliability. The first paper covers a new formulation of clock skew minimization that uses a quadratic programming approach and considers subcritical skews in addition to the most critical skews. The next paper describes a parallel implmentation of the low-rank compression with linear cost reduction capacity with respect to the number of processors. Static and dynamic NBTI modeling and design methods to mitigate the NBTI effects are presented. In the final paper, a new dynamic reliability management scheme is described to balance the increasing throughput during periods of peak computational demand while ensuring the required reliability lifetime.

  58.1   Clock Buffer and Wire Sizing Using Sequential Programming
  Speaker(s): Matthew R. Guthaus - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  Author(s): Matthew R. Guthaus - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Dennis Sylvester - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Richard B. Brown - Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  58.2  Modeling and Minimization of PMOS NBTI Effect for Robust Nanometer Design
  Speaker(s): Rakesh Vattikonda - Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
  Author(s): Rakesh Vattikonda - Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
Yu Kevin Cao - Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
Wenping Wang - Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
  58.3s  A Parallel Low-Rank Multilevel Matrix Compression Algorithm for Parasitic Extraction of Electrically Large Structures
  Speaker(s): Chuanyi Yang - Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
  Author(s): Chuanyi Yang - Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Swagato Chakraborty - Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Dipanjan Gope - Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Vikram Jandhyala - Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
  58.4s  Reliability Modeling and Management in Dynamic Microprocessor-Based Systems
  Speaker(s): Eric Karl - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  Author(s): Eric Karl - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
David Blaauw - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Dennis Sylvester - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Trevor N. Mudge - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI