Abstract : Nonzero signal rise and fall times significantly contribute to gate propagation delay. Designers must accurately consider them when defining timing library format. Based on a design oriented macromodel of the timing performance of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) structures, a general representation of transition times allowing fast and accurate cell performance evaluation is presented. This representation is validated comparing calculated gate input-output transition time values with respect to standard lookup representation obtained from HSPICE simulations (BSIM3, v.3, level 69, 0.25 μm process).
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Philippe Maurine, Nadine Azemard, Daniel Auvergne. General Representation of CMOS Structure Transition time for Timing Library Representation. Electronics Letters, IET, 2002, 38 (4), pp.175-177. ⟨lirmm-00239318⟩