3D VNWFET-Based Standard Cell Library Design Flow: from Circuit and Physical Design to Logic Synthesis

S. Mannaa, C. Marchand, D. Deleruyelle, B. Deveautour, A. Bosio, C. Lenz, O. Baumgartner, and I. O’Connor
The vertical nanowire field effect transistor (VN-WFET) is an emerging technology that promises to improve the sustainability of future transistor scaling beyond the limitations of conventional lateral devices. With its 3D gate-all-around (GAA) architecture, such a technology enables designs with improved energy-efficiency as well as reduced footprint and thus interconnect capacitance. In this work, and based on the compact model of a real VNWFET device, we present the design flow for the generation of a standard cell library starting from the circuit and physical design of logic cells to logic synthesis based on the VNWFET technology. The results on the synthesized benchmark cells, as compared against 45nm and 65nm CMOS libraries, demonstrate a significant decrease in the average dynamic power consumption and delay values up to 71X and 34X respectively, with an average area gain of up to 5X. However, an increase in leakage power consumption (up to 2X on average) was also observed.
Publication date: 06 October 2024
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