What are Decaps?

on-chip decoupling capacitors(decaps) are usually made of MOS transistors with source and drain connected together. The gate leakage current becomes worse as the gate oxide layer thickness continues to shrink below 20Å. As a result, decaps will become leaky due to the gate leakage from CMOS devices.

What is the purpose of Decaps?

Decap cells are basically a charge storing device made of the capacitors and used to support the instant current requirement in the power delivery network.

What are Decap filler cells?

Decap filler cells are small capacitors which are placed between VDD and GND all over the layout when the logic circuit draw a high amount of current, this capacitor provides extra charge to that circuit. when logic circuit not drawing any current, the de-cap is charged up to maximum capacitance.

What is decoupling capacitor in physical design?

A decoupling capacitor is a capacitor, which is used decouple the critical cells from main power supply, in order to protect the cells from the disturbance occuring in the power distribution lines and source. The purpose of using decoupling capacitors is to deliver current to the gates during switching.

What happens to the VDD in a Decap cell?

This large current requirement may drop the VDD or may increase the ground voltage which is called voltage droop or groud bounce as shown in figure-2 (c). Voltage droop or ground bounce may result in the change in the delay of connected standard cells. As the delay is proportional to the supply voltage.

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Are there drawbacks to using Decap cells?

Another drawback, which many designers ignore, is the interaction of the decap cells with the package RLC network. Since the die is essentially a capacitor with very small R and L, and the package is a hug RL network, the more decap cells placed the more chance of tuning the circuit into its resonance frequency.