Analyze of temporal and random variability of a 45nm SOI SRAM cell
This paper presents the analysis of a 45nm SOI SRAM cell variability including history effects and random variability. This leads to an accurate margin calculation.
Physical IP for SOI design infrastructure
ASIC design is today achieved by mixing different physical IP blocks including standard cells, memory compilers, IO and analog blocks when needed. The circuits are designed using a given EDA flow, starting from high-level functional description (RTL netlist) and going down to the physical implementation. This process involves logical synthesis to achieve the required functionality, timing analysis, power analysis and area optimization performed before and after routing of the different blocks. This process has become quite complex and necessitates many iterations to reach the expected result in term of speed, power consumption and area. As SOI processes become more popular and are now considered for use in ASIC beyond the traditional use for CPU, it has become crucial to put in place the corresponding physical IP libraries.
The Politics of Truth: Power in Nietzsche’s Epistemology
This article concerns first a curiosity found in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Antichrist. In the midst of a heated attack on Christianity, Nietzsche detours into a discussion of epistemology. I argue that this turn indicates the importance of epistemology, and illustrates its political and moral character. The weak, who cannot tolerate uncertainty and shades of gray, seek to impose an epistemology of clarity and certainty. At the same time, the strong, who revel in ambiguity, seek to enjoy the richness and subtlety of a non-dichotomous view of the world. This is a political struggle because the weak cannot allow the strong’s epistemology to exist, let alone prevail. It is not surprising, then, that Nietzsche talks about epistemology in the midst of attacking Christianity: its view of truth is essential to its mission of taming the nobles. Here, I consider Nietzsche as a political thinker in a different light. Political battles are fought far beyond the halls of government. Nietzsche is a political thinker; one, however, who looks at politics in an uncommon way.