25 ps/gate GaAs standard cell LSIs using 0.5 mu m gate MESFETs

Abstract
A design system of GaAs standard cell LSIs using 0.5- mu m MESFETs is presented. This design system is intended to be used to design LSIs whose operating speed is from several hundred MHz to several GHz. A basic gate is DCFL (direct coupled FET logic), and the delay time is less than 25 ps. The library includes 40 cells and 8 I/O buffers which are designed to be compatible with ECL 10 K, TTL (transistor-transistor logic), CMOS, and GaAs. Using this design system, an LSI was fabricated, and its performance was evaluated. The results of the evaluation show that the error in postlayout simulation is under 10%.<>

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