Design Automation Techniques for SOI and High-Performance Bulk CMOS Designs

为了保持过去三十年半导体行业的惊人增长速度，未来有必要摒弃最传统的超大规模集成电路制造方法。本研究将对这一领域的问题进行探讨。这项研究的主要目的是为使用绝缘体上硅(SOI)技术的电路提供设计自动化支持，尽管这项工作的某些方面将适用于广泛使用的体相CMOS技术。这项研究将开发特定于SOI的合成技术，以及使设计者能够利用双阈值电压等技术的优化技术。与物理设计相关的问题也将被考虑。

In order to maintain the spectacular rates of growth in the semiconductor industry over the past three decades, it will be necessary in the future to move away from the most traditional ways of building VLSI circuits. This research will explore problems in this domain. The main thrust of the research is related to providing design automation support for circuits using silicon on insulator (SOI) technology, although some aspects of the work will have applicability to the widely used bulk CMOS technology. This research will develop SOI-specific synthesis techniques, as well as optimization techniques that enable the designer to exploit technologies such as dual threshold voltages. Issues related to related to physical design will also be considered.