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Magic Blue Smoke is a blog dedicated to discussing the challenges of low power ASIC Design

I have worked in the VLSI industry for 14 years as a digital IC designer. My recent work has been focused on low-power challenges associated with multi-voltage/
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Multi-Voltage/Power Gated design and LVS

Posted by Godwin Maben on August 2nd, 2010

Some interesting observation while running LVS on a power gated or a MV design. Here is quick preview on the problem description

As shown in the picture above if LVS is run on a Verilog netlist generated without bulk pin connections, bulk connections may not be correct from electrical perspective.

More on how typically designers handle this in my next post.

This entry was posted on Monday, August 2nd, 2010 at 8:44 am and is filed under low power general. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

One Response to “Multi-Voltage/Power Gated design and LVS”

Pmem says:

March 9, 2011 at 7:32 am

Is there any update available on this?

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