A novel and unified full-chip CMP model aware dummy fill insertion framework with SQP-based optimization method

J Cai, C Yan, Y Tao, Y Lin, SG Wang… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dummy filling is widely applied to significantly improve the planarity of topographic patterns
for the chemical mechanical polishing process in VLSI manufactures. The main challenge of …

NeurFill: Migrating full-chip CMP simulators to neural networks for model-based dummy filling synthesis

J Cai, C Yan, Y Ma, B Yu, D Zhou… - 2021 58th ACM/IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dummy filling is widely applied to significantly improve the planarity of topographic patterns
for the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process in VLSI manufacturing. This paper …

pNeurFill: Enhanced Neural Network Model-Based Dummy Filling Synthesis With Perimeter Adjustment

Z Chen, J Cai, C Yan, Z Bi, Y Ma, B Yu… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dummy filling is widely applied to significantly improve the planarity of topographic patterns
for the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process in VLSI manufacturing. In the dummy …

[KNYGA][B] Machine Learning-based Design and Optimization of High-Speed Circuits

V Melikyan - 2024 - Springer
The book systematically expounds the main results obtained by the author in the field of
design and optimization of high-speed integrated circuits (ICs) and their standard blocks …

Metal Fill-Induced Timing Effects: Unraveling Parasitics in Network on Chips

KS Durgakeri, V Pudi - 2024 IEEE International Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In semiconductor design, challenges posed by the chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP)
process are accentuated by the unintended timing degradation from conventional metal fill …

Design of Digital Integrated Circuits by Improving the Characteristics of Digital Cells

V Melikyan - Machine Learning-based Design and Optimization of …, 2023 - Springer
This chapter is devoted to the development of methods and principles for improving the main
characteristics of digital standard cell (SC), which will allow to significantly increase the …

Exploring Early Timing Insights: The Impact of Parasitic Methodology

ASR Reddy, PL Sarvaani, K Das… - 2023 IEEE Asia Pacific …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the pursuit of advancing integrated circuit design for smaller technology nodes, this paper
introduces an innovative technique called Dummy Metal Fill (DMF). This method addresses …

Machine learning techniques for routability-driven routing in application-specific integrated circuits design

Y Pan - 2022 - open.library.ubc.ca
Routing is a challenging stage of the Integrated Circuit (IC) design process. A routing
algorithm often adopts the two-stage approach of global routing followed by detailed routing …

[HTML][HTML] Power and Ground Metal Insertion into Integrated Circuit Design Combined with Timing Aware Dummy Metal Fill Insertion

MV Sh - Известия высших учебных заведений. Электроника, 2021 - cyberleninka.ru
As dummy metal fill insertion is mandatory step for integrated circuits'(IC) current
manufacturing processes, many works are targeting better fill insertion with small coupling …

Towards Automated End-to-End VLSI Design for Manufacturability Solutions

B Jiang - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Pushing the integrated circuit (IC) technology node to extreme brings in daunting challenges
for the semiconductor manufacturing. The IC fabrication involves a series of physical and …