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Download or read book Analog Statistical Design for Manufacturability written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manufacturing yield, overkill, and defect level limit the feasibility of analog circuits in SoCs. The conventional method of handling process and environmental variation is to assign a design margin such that the design meets specifications at several processes and environmental corners. However, checking only extreme corners limits performance in comparison to the more rigorous statistical approach of the computing manufacturing and quality figure of merit. The statistical approach requires transistor-level simulation of hundreds or even thousands of samples, not just a few corners, and thus is very time consuming. This research offers a method for reducing the time required for the statistical approach by characterizing each of the many samples of building blocks once at the transistor level. The building blocks are scalable such that the statistics are preserved when a building block is adjusted to the requirement of a higher-level design. Many design scenarios can be rapidly explored by assembling and scaling the building block samples without SPICE simulation. This study employs a continuous time low-pass filter design example to extract the requirements of the building block approach. The requirements include a method to assemble building blocks (biquad element for the example) into a filter design while preserving the statistics that would have been extracted by simulation of the entire filter at the transistor level. The assembly method for both linear and nonlinear response is proposed.