Integrating high speed IP at 5nm

The advancements in deep sub-micron technology and adding multiple functionalities to reduce costs combined with scaling existing operations means that SoC designs become ever more complex. The biggest driving factors to go below the 16nm process node are the decrease in power and the increase in performance due to the higher transistor densities of these advanced nodes. However, doing so creates challenges to physical Implementation and timing/power closure. In particular, high speed IP such as SerDes, DDR, PCIE integration in a large SoC needs careful floor planning to reduce the project time as well as achieve timing/power signoff. In this article, we will look at the new challenges which have been introduced due to 5nm technology as well due to new additional functionality in SoC. We will show the approach to tackle the floor planning and timing issue to reduce the physical implementation iteration. Full paper at https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-services/320491-integrating-high-speed-ip-at-5nm/