In this paper, we describe a placement-level decap insertion technique whose objective is to reduce power-noise, taking into account circuit timing. Our approach consists of prediction and correction steps. Before placement, we estimate the power noise of each cell considering switching frequency of cells which, after placement, will most likely be in the neighborhood. If a frequently switching cell has neighbors that switch infrequently, it is unlikely that this cell will suffer from a power noise problem. Based on the cell power noise estimation, we add decap padding to each cell. Then we invoke a standard cell placement tool and perform power grid analysis. We eliminate the power grid noise by gate sizing. Our technique can allocate decaps to improve power noise, power consumption, and timing. We propose two gate-sizing algorithms. The first one uses a Sequence of Linear Programs (SLP) formulation, and the second one uses a budgeting-based heuristic algorithm. The SLP algorithm can produce better power noise results than the heuristic, at the expense of run time. Experimental results show that our techniques can effectively reduce power noise and still meet timing constraints.
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