Implementation of Extracted Timing Methodology on Process Monitor for Silicon Characterization

Process variations are playing a key role in defining the behaviour of an IP. These process variations can accurately measure using process monitor. In order to verify process variations, the process monitor should meet all timing requirements. Static Timing Analysis (STA) uses best case/ and worst analysis overly pessimistic, and could be optimistic also in some cases. Static Timing Analysis (STA) is a method for estimating yield of a circuit in terms of timing activities. Model extraction is a technique that accurately captures the characteristics of interface logic of a design in the form of a timing library model and provides a capacity improvement in timing verification by more than two orders of magnitude. Extracted timing model is an efficient timing library model to get accurate timing arcs of the circuit. This paper describes Methodology for creating timing models and also the flow to develop IP (process monitor) ETMs (.lib) using Synopsys Primetime tool, which can be used in any SOC and ETMs (Extracted timing models)with necessary time-budgeting instead of IP Netlists. Generated ETM with and without annotation delays and compared the library file. And the process monitor2019;s ring oscillator is designed through Verilog code using cadence tool

MEDEA: A Hybrid Shared-memory/Message-passing Multiprocessor NoC-based Architecture

The shared-memory model has been adopted, both for data exchange as well as synchronization using semaphores in almost every on-chip multiprocessor implementation, ranging from general purpose chip multiprocessors (CMPs) to domain specific multi-core graphics processing units (GPUs). Low-latency synchronization is desirable but is hard to achieve in practice due to the memory hierarchy. On the contrary, an explicit exchange of synchronization tokens among the processing elements through dedicated on-chip links would be beneficial for the overall system performance. In this paper we propose the Medea NoC-based framework, a hybrid shared-memory/message-passing approach. Medea has been modeled with a fast, cycle-accurate SystemC implementation enabling a fast system exploration varying several parameters like number and types of cores, cache size and policy and NoC features. In addition, every SystemC block has its RTL counterpart for physical implementation on FPGAs and ASICs. A parallel version of the Jacobi algorithm has been used as a test application to validate the metodology. Results confirm expectations about performance and effectiveness of system exploration and desig

MEDEA: A Hybrid Shared-memory/Message-passing Multiprocessor NoC-based Architecture

The shared-memory model has been adopted, both for data exchange as well as synchronization using semaphores in almost every on-chip multiprocessor implementation, ranging from general purpose chip multiprocessors (CMPs) to domain specific multi-core graphics processing units (GPUs). Low-latency synchronization is desirable but is hard to achieve in practice due to the memory hierarchy. On the contrary, an explicit exchange of synchronization tokens among the processing elements through dedicated on-chip links would be beneficial for the overall system performance. In this paper we propose the Medea NoC-based framework, a hybrid shared-memory/message-passing approach. Medea has been modeled with a fast, cycle-accurate SystemC implementation enabling a fast system exploration varying several parameters like number and types of cores, cache size and policy and NoC features. In addition, every SystemC block has its RTL counterpart for physical implementation on FPGAs and ASICs. A parallel version of the Jacobi algorithm has been used as a test application to validate the metodology. Results confirm expectations about performance and effectiveness of system exploration and design