Multi-Objective Variation-Aware Sizing for Analog CNFET Circuits
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Abstract
Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) are one of the promising candidates to substitute CMOS technology for next-generation integrated circuits. Process variation currently hinders the wide adoption of CNFET technology, and many techniques have been developed to overcome the fabrication variation for digital CNFET circuits while analog CNFET circuits generally lack a proper approach to avoid performance failure. In this paper, we present a multi-objective deterministic sizing flow considering carbon nanotube diameter process variation for analog CNFET sizing design. To develop a systematic design methodology and ensure performance robustness, we use a design centering approach for circuit sizing to obtain the optimal value of design parameters against carbon nanotube process variation. We take advantage of the normal boundary intersection (NBI) method in combination with our modified generalized boundary curve (GBC) method to conduct variation-aware CNFET multi-objective optimization. With one case study of a common analog CNFET circuit tested for our optimization methodology, the experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method can reach a better estimation of the Pareto front compared to another popular multi-objective optimization method.
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