CAREER: Integrated Automation Strategy for Interconnect Design: A New Paradigm for Mixed-Signal Nanoscale Integrated Circuits

职业：互连设计的集成自动化策略：混合信号纳米级集成电路的新范式

• 批准号: 0448558
• 负责人: Yehia Massoud
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-04-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0448558&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Integrated; Automation; Strategy; Interconnect

Proposal No: 048558 PI name: Massoud, Yehia Inst.: William Marsh Rice Univ Title: Integrated Automation Strategy for Interconnect Design: A New Paradigm for Mixed-Signal Nanoscale Integrated CircuitsAbstractDue to aggressive technology scaling and increasing operating frequencies, interconnect has become the main performance limiting factor in integrated circuits. Consequently, interconnect synthesis plays a vital role in facilitating today's mixed-signal designs, but current design automation techniques fail to include deep sub-micron interconnect effects directly into the synthesis process, resulting in costly redesign. To promote synthesis strategies that handle the increased complexity of mixed-signal nanoscale integrated circuits, the PI proposes a new interconnect synthesis paradigm that evaluates the circuit signal integrity and performance during interconnect synthesis. Under this new paradigm, interconnect in mixed-signal systems is modeled, optimized and synthesized taking all aspects of the system's interconnect into account. This includes analog interconnect structures and integrated components as well as interconnect in digital portions of the design. To facilitate and develop our new system-oriented interconnect synthesis paradigm for mixed-signal nanoscale ICs, the PI will research and create: (i) analytical modeling, optimization and synthesis methodologies that facilitate generalized design automation in integrated mixed-signal and system-on-chip designs; (ii) system-oriented interconnect synthesis strategies utilizing statistical modeling methodologies incorporating inductance to produce layout that meets design constraints. To further prepare students for mixed-signal interconnect design, the PI will employ dynamically changing computer engineering curriculum in both his graduate class, which utilizes innovative semester-long projects emphasizing original research, and his undergraduate class, which stresses the fundamentals of the VLSI design process and provides students with an intuitive understanding of critical concepts.

提案编号：048558 PI 名称：Massoud，Yehia 研究所：William Marsh Rice Univ 标题：互连设计的集成自动化策略：混合信号纳米级集成电路的新范式摘要由于积极的技术扩展和工作频率的增加，互连已成为主要的技术集成电路的性能限制因素。 因此，互连综合在促进当今的混合信号设计方面发挥着至关重要的作用，但当前的设计自动化技术未能将深亚微米互连效应直接纳入综合过程中，从而导致成本高昂的重新设计。 为了促进处理混合信号纳米级集成电路复杂性增加的综合策略，PI提出了一种新的互连综合范例，用于在互连综合期间评估电路信号完整性和性能。 在这种新范式下，混合信号系统中的互连被建模、优化和综合，同时考虑到系统互连的各个方面。 这包括模拟互连结构和集成组件以及设计的数字部分中的互连。 为了促进和开发我们用于混合信号纳米级 IC 的新的面向系统的互连综合范例，PI 将研究和创建：(i) 分析建模、优化和综合方法，以促进集成混合信号和系统上的通用设计自动化-芯片设计； (ii) 面向系统的互连综合策略，利用结合电感的统计建模方法来产生满足设计约束的布局。为了进一步帮助学生做好混合信号互连设计的准备，PI 将在研究生课程和本科课程中采用动态变化的计算机工程课程，其中研究生课程利用强调原创性研究的创新性学期项目，而本科课程则强调 VLSI 设计的基础知识过程并为学生提供对关键概念的直观理解。