As the semiconductor process technology advances into sub-10nm regime, cell pin
accessibility, which is a complex joint effect from the pin shape and nearby blockages …

With the continuous scaling down of process nodes, standard cells become much smaller
and cell counts are dramatically increased. Pin accessibility becomes one of the major …

With the relentless scaling of technology nodes, design technology co-optimization (DTCO)
for the conventional (Conv.) cell structure is starting to reach its limitations due to limited …

In advanced nodes, scaling of critical dimension and pitch has not progressed at historical
Moore's Law rates. Thus, scaling boosters are explored to improve achievable power …

Standard cell libraries are the foundation for the entire back-end design and optimization
flow in modern application-specific integrated circuit designs. At 7nm technology node and …

In this article, we propose an automated standard cell synthesis framework, SP&R, which
simultaneously solves P&R without deploying any sequential/separate operations, by a …

Pin accessibility has been widely studied, particularly in recent works that span detailed
placement optimization, standard cell layout optimization and new design rule-aware access …

Standard cell synthesis requires careful engineering approaches to ensure routability across
various digital IC designs since physical design (PD) for sub-7nm technology nodes …

Pin accessibility encounters nontrivial challenges due to the smaller number of routing
tracks, higher pin density, and more complex design rules. Consequently, securing design …

As the technology node is evolving, standard cell (SDC) design scaling is obstructed by
design constraints such as limited routing resources, lateral PN separation, and …