Computer-Aided Design, International Conference on
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Abstract

We propose an efficient Hermite spline-based SPICE simulation methodology for accurate statistical yield analysis. Unlike conventional methods, the spline-based transistor tables are built on-demand specific to the transient simulation requirements of the statistical experiments. Compared with traditional MOSFET table models, on-demand spline table models use ~500X less memory. This makes Hermite spline-based table models practical for use in simulations for process variation modeling. Furthermore, we propose an efficient gate voltage offset approach to model transistor threshold voltage variation. In this scenario, evaluations of the transistor model rely on a single reference table and require one set of spline function evaluations per V
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