P R E – C O N F E R E N C E T U T O R I A L 27th Norchip Conference 15 November 2009 at 13.00-17.00, Trondheim, NORWAY Lanny L. Lewyn - B.S. Eng. with honor and M.S.E.E. California Physical Design and Reliability Issues in Institute of Technology. Ph.D. E.E. Stanford (CIS) 1984. His work at Nanoscale Analog CMOS Technologies Stanford on physical limits of VLSI circuits resulted in publication of the Abstract first closed-form solution for the MOS device surface potential that was In nanoscale analog CMOS design there is no good substitute for understanding continuous from weak to strong reliability stress factors or the many effects related to the circuit physical layout inversion. which can cause significant design-for-reliability (DFR), performance (DFP), or Past work includes an 18b CMOS DAC design licensed to Toshiba for manufacturability (DFM) yield degradation. Circuit simulation tools presently early 4x OS audio disc players, a lack the capability to predict the effect of several stress and reliability effects, 14b CMOS ADC used by DSL including TDDB, HCI, NBTI, etc. Physical design deficiencies found after post- industry-pioneers PairGain and Alcatel, and a 1.2 mW, a 16b CMOS layout-extraction results in re-layout and a waste of the industries most valuable ADC x36-array in an image commodity: time to market. This tutorial presents an overview of these effects processing ASIC recently installed in on nanoscale analog circuit design ...