Multiple-Lithography-Compliant Verification for Standard Cell Library Development Flow

05/28/2018
by   Yongfu Li, et al.
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Starting from 22-nm, a standard cell must be designed to be full lithography-compliant, which includes Design Rule Check, Design-for-Manufacturability and Double-Patterning compliant. It has become a great challenge for physical layout designers to provide a full lithography-compliant standard cell layout that is optimized for area, power, timing, signal integrity, and yield. This challenge is further exacerbated with abutted single- and multiple-height standard cells. At present, different foundries and library vendors have different approaches for full lithography-compliant library preparation and validation. To the best of our knowledge, there is no single tool integrates all types of lithography-compliant check in standard cell libraries validation flow. In this work, we will demonstrate multiple lithography-compliant verification for standard cell library development flow. Validation flow and detailed algorithm implementation will be explained to assist engineers to achieve full lithography-compliant standard cell libraries. An area-efficient standard cell placement methodology will also be discussed to validate the issues arises from standard cell abutment.

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