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Once the critical cells are placed on the chip, it becomes necessary to surround the critical cells by decoupling capacitors. The placement of de-coupling capacitors surrounding the pre-placed cells improves the reliability and efficiency of the chip.
So, this has been due for long time. May be because of tight tape out deadlines, this very important piece of Physical Design flow just got missed. And I am sure, like me, many might be curious to know what is the IEEE SPEF format, what does various attributes of SPEF file represent, etc...
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Usually, while drawing any circuit on paper, we have only one 'vdd' at the top and one 'vss' at the bottom. But on a chip, it becomes necessary to have a grid structure of power, with more than one 'vdd' and 'vss'. The concept of power grid structure would be uploaded soon. It is actually the scaling trend that drives chip designers for power grid structure.
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A CMOS, is basically an inverter logic (NOT gate), that consists of a PMOS at the top, and NMOS at the bottom (as shown in figure below), whose 'gate' and 'drain' terminal are tied together. The 'gate' terminals of both the MOS transistors is the input side of an inverter, whereas, the 'drain' terminals form the output side.
https://www.udemy.com/vlsi-academy
http://vlsisystemdesign.com/place_decap.php
Once the critical cells are placed on the chip, it becomes necessary to surround the critical cells by decoupling capacitors. The placement of de-coupling capacitors surrounding the pre-placed cells improves the reliability and efficiency of the chip.
So, this has been due for long time. May be because of tight tape out deadlines, this very important piece of Physical Design flow just got missed. And I am sure, like me, many might be curious to know what is the IEEE SPEF format, what does various attributes of SPEF file represent, etc...
https://www.udemy.com/vlsi-academy
Usually, while drawing any circuit on paper, we have only one 'vdd' at the top and one 'vss' at the bottom. But on a chip, it becomes necessary to have a grid structure of power, with more than one 'vdd' and 'vss'. The concept of power grid structure would be uploaded soon. It is actually the scaling trend that drives chip designers for power grid structure.
https://www.udemy.com/vlsi-academy
http://vlsisystemdesign.com/switchAct.php
A CMOS, is basically an inverter logic (NOT gate), that consists of a PMOS at the top, and NMOS at the bottom (as shown in figure below), whose 'gate' and 'drain' terminal are tied together. The 'gate' terminals of both the MOS transistors is the input side of an inverter, whereas, the 'drain' terminals form the output side.