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Mechanical strain and temperature aware design methodology for thin-film transistor based pseudo-CMOS logic array
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Mechanical strain and temperature aware design methodology for thin-film transistor based pseudo-CMOS logic array

Wenyu Sun, Yuxuan Huang, Qinghang Zhao, Fei Qiao, Tsung-Yi Ho, Xiaojun Guo, Huazhong Yang and Yongpan Liu
Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC, Vol.2018-January, pp.645-650
02/2018

Abstract

Electrical and Electronic Engineering Computer Science Applications Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Thin-film transistor (TFT) circuits are facing the challenges of unipolar device, process variation, and yield problems, which can be addressed by pseudo-CMOS logic array with multi-layer interconnect. However, existing design methodology does not take mechanical strain and temperature into consideration which may seriously affect the carrier mobility of TFT and thus the performance of whole logic array circuits. This paper presents a novel cell mapping algorithm including intrarow mapping step and inter-row mapping step for flexible logic array to mitigate the mobility influence. Experimental results indicate that there is more than 40% performance improvement in critical path delay at best case with the proposed algorithm.

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