Handsheet for Full-Custom Circuit Design

This paper addresses a transistor level design for manufacturing methodology. Design efforts are devoted to robustness against process variations. Temperature and voltage tolerances should also be tackled for mass production. A structured design methodology contemplating issues like intuitive design and Monte-Carlo simulations is proposed. As an illustrative example, the methodology is applied to the design of a Cellular Non-linear Network cell in UMC 130nm CMOS technology.

keywords: Transistor-level Design, Cellular Non-linear Networks, Mismatch, Monte-Carlo Simulations