Guoyong Shi & Sheldon X.-D. Tan 
Advanced Symbolic Analysis for VLSI Systems [PDF ebook] 
Methods and Applications

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the recent advances in symbolic analysis techniques for design automation of nanometer VLSI systems. The presentation is organized in parts of fundamentals, basic implementation methods and applications for VLSI design. Topics emphasized include statistical timing and crosstalk analysis, statistical and parallel analysis, performance bound analysis and behavioral modeling for analog integrated circuits. Among the recent advances, the Binary Decision Diagram (BDD) based approaches are studied in depth. The BDD-based hierarchical symbolic analysis approaches, have essentially broken the analog circuit size barrier.

Table des matières

Part I: Fundamentals.- Introduction.- Symbolic Analysis Techniques In A Nutshell.- Binary Decision Diagram for Symbolic Analysis.- Part II: Methods.- Determinant Decision Diagrams.- DD Implementation.- Generalized Two-Graph Theory.- Graph-Pair Decision Diagram.- Hierarchical Analysis Methods.- Symbolic Nodal Analysis of Analog Circuits Using Nullors.- Part III: Applications.- Symbolic Moment Computation.- Performance Bound Analysis of Analog Circuits Considering Process Variations.- Statistical Parallel Monte-Carlo Analysis on GPUS.