Calibrating Achievable Design C.A.D. Theme

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Calibrating Achievable Design (C.A.D.) Theme

• This Theme solves Design Technology productivity
  gaps

• Specification Gap
• What will be the critical design problem?
  FOCUS
• GSRC Technology Extrapolation (GTX) System
  and Living ITRS
  http//vlsicad.ucsd.edu/GTX
• Development and Delivery Gap
• How to deploy DT better and faster? TTM, QOR
• GSRC Bookshelf for CAD-IP Reuse
  http//vlsicad.eecs.umich.edu/BK
• Measurement and Improvement Gap
• Did envelope of achievable design grow? METRICS
• GSRC METRICS System for Design Process
  Optimization http//vlsicad.ucsd.edu/METRICS

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Other Roles of the C.A.D. Theme

• Identify best opportunities for sharing of red
  bricks between EDA and other semiconductor
  supplier industries
• GTX studies Manufacturing Calibration Is
  low-k worth the development cost? What is the
  best interconnect process architecture for 65nm?
  What FEOL and BEOL variabilities can designers
  tolerate? What is the most cost-effective
  memory-logic integration?

C.A.D. Theme
Semi Industry

• Repository of best known methods, models, metrics
• Connects applications and drivers (e.g., ITRS
  MPU, SOC) to technology roadmap
• Connects algorithm (e.g., Fabrics) and design
  technology (e.g., Power-Energy) within GSRC and
  to designs, interconnects, devices, and materials
  ( other FRCs)
• Agent of culture change
• Measurement characterization of EDA
• Open-source CAD-IP vertical benchmarking
• New vectors e.g., reusable curriculum IP for
  VLSI, VLSI design, VLSI design technology
  education

ITRS
Living ITRS
Models and Calibrations
Design Houses
What is the design problem?
How should Design help solve ITRS red bricks?
VLSI Design Education
Manufacturing Calibration
Open-Source CAD-IP
Other FRCs
METRICS Design Process Opt
Other GSRC Themes
EDA Industry Academia