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Timer Calibration Utility

User can use the script for generating 2-stage structure with parasitic resistance and capacitance to calibrate timing between OpenSTA and HSPICE as shown in the figure below. The purpose is to validate the timing correctness between liberaries and SPICE circuit netlist. We validate the following items.
An example of 2-stage structure with parasitic resistance.

Base delay:

User can calibrate basic path/cell delay between libraries and HSPICE results.

Signal integrity (SI) features:

User can calibrate timing between libraries and HSPICE results with crosstalk

Statistical on-chip variation:

User can calibrate timing between libraries and HSPICE results considering the statistical distribution of delay of each cells.

Glitch noise propagation:

User can calibrate timing between libraries and HSPICE results when the glitch noise is propagated. Currently, OpenSTA does not support CCS noise format library.

Pre-requisite

Directory Structure
Directory Structure Figure
Directory Description
docs Readme.md and introduction of configuration file.
Free45PDK Free45PDK library, model cards, and cell spice netlists.
sdc Design constraint file for OpenSTA.
spice_dump Dumped SPICE netlist from OpenSTA.
sta Generated OpenSTA tcl script for generating the timing report and SPICE netlist.
sta_path_result Dumped OpenSTA path delay timing report.
result HSPICE measurement(.mt0) file after HSPICE simulation.
gen_spef Generated .spef file for OpenSTA.
gen_verilog Generated verilog file for OpenSTA.
pin_check Logs of reading liberaries parser.

Input and Output Files

Input Files Description
SPICE model card SPICE model card, such as gpdk45nm.m.
Library Library, such as gpdk45nm.lib.
Cell SPICE netlist Cell SPICE netlist, such as cells.sp.
Configuration file Configuration file to run timer calibration. Please see config_introduction.md.
Cell input pin assignment file Cell input pin assignment for verilog generation, such as ./TimerCalibration/utility/INPUT_ASSIGNMENT
Output Files Description
SPICE measurement results HSPICE measurement (.mt0) in result directory.
Dumped SPICE netlists HSPICE netlist dumped by OpenSTA in spice_dump directory.
OpenSTA timing report Dumped OpenSTA path timing report in sta_path_result directory.
OpenSTA summary report Summary report in OpenSTA_Summary_Report.txt.

User can examine the OpenSTA path delays, SPICE path delay, error and relative error in OpenSTA summary report.

Quick Start

Required files

  • Configuration files

  • Cell SPICE netlist

  • Cell input pin assignment file (Ex: INPUT_ASSIGNMENT)

  • Model card

  • Library file (Ex: gscl45nm.lib)

    $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/abk-openroad/OpenROAD-Utilities.git
$ cd TimerCalibration/utility
$ ln -s <OpenSTA binary> ./sta
$ ./run.pl -cfg <configuration file> // (Ex: ./run.pl -cfg ./Free45PDK_cfg/AND2X1.cfg )

Batch Run Example

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/abk-openroad/OpenROAD-Utilities.git
$ cd TimerCalibration/utility
$ ln -s <OpenSTA binary> ./sta
$ ./run_all.sh

Verified/Supported Technology

Eample Technology

  • Free45PDK The summary report and histogram of path delay error between OpenSTA and HSPICE result are in the below.
Summary Report
Free45PDK Error Histogram

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