Tutorial T3B: Engineering Change Order (ECO) Phase Challenges and Methodologies for High Performance Design
Sridhar Rangarajan, Pinaki Chakrabarti, Sourav Sahais, Ayan Datta, Adarsh Subramanya · 2014
Summary form only given. Engineering Change Order or ECO phase is always challenging for any family of chip design. High Performance Microprocessors are largest and most complex overall design within Semiconductor Industry as a whole. To add further, there are additional design and methodology challenge related to bleeding edge of process nodes. Hence, current and future microprocessor design requires a set of well planned and innovative methodologies to cater to the ECO requirement when the race to the finishing line begins! This tutorial is organized into following four key sections. Apart from that, there will be a brief preview section and a real scenario-based learning section towards the end.