Handsheet for full-custom circuit design

This paper addresses a transistor level design for manufacturing methodology. Design efforts are devoted to robustness against process variations. Temperature and voltage tolerances should also be tackled for mass production. A structured design methodology contemplating issues like intuitive design and Monte-Carlo simulations is proposed. As an illustrative example, the methodology is applied to the design of a cellular nonlinear network cell in UMC 130 nm CMOS technology.