Statistical gate delay model for Multiple Input Switching
Takayuki Fukuoka, Akira Tsuchiya, Hidetoshi Onodera · 2008
In this paper, we propose a calculation method of gate delay for SSTA (Statistical Static Timing Analysis) considering MIS (Multiple Input Switching). Most SSTA approaches assume a single input switching model and ignore the effect of MIS on gate delay. MIS occurs when multiple inputs of a gate switch nearly simultaneously. Thus, ignoring MIS causes error in MAX operation in SSTA. We propose a statistical gate delay model considering MIS. We verify the proposed method by SPICE based Monte Carlo simulations and experimental results show that the proposed method improves the error due to ignoring MIS.