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-====== Glossary ======
-[ __[[vlsi:home|Home]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:workbook|Design WorkBook]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#a|A]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#b|B]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#c|C]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#d|D]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#e|E]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#f|F]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#g|G]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#h|H]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#i|I]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#j|J]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#k|K]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#l|L]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#m|M]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#n|N]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#o|O]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#p|P]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#q|Q]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#r|R]]__ ]
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-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#t|T]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#u|U]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#v|V]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#w|W]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#x|X]]__ ]
-[ __[[vlsi:glossary#y|Y]]__ ]
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-====== ======
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-The following glossary is a reference document for information and explanations of acronyms and common
-terms related to VLSI IC design and Cadence softwares.
-Be aware that this page is continuously being updated with new acronyms and improved definitions and concepts.
-===== A =====
-**AC** - Alternating Current
-**ac** - (//Spectre//) AC analysis
-**ADC** - Analog-to-Digital Converter
-**ADE** - (//Virtuoso//) Analog Design Environment
-**aka** - short for //also known as//
-**ALICE** - (//CERN//) A Large Ion Collider Experiment
-**AMS** - (//vendor//) [[ http://www.ams.com | American MicroSemiconductors]] (ex. Austria Micro Systems)
-**APS** - (//Spectre//) Accelerated Parallel Simulator
-**ASIC** - Application Specific Integrated Circuit
-**Assura** - //Cadence//'s layout verification tool
-===== B =====
-**BX** - Bunch Crossing
-**BW** - Band-Width
-===== C =====
-**CAD** - Computer Aided Design
-**Calibre** - //Mentor Graphics//'s layout verification tool
-**CDK** - Cadence Design Kit
-**CCCS** - Current Controlled Current Source
-**CCVS** - Current Controlled Voltage Source
-**CDE** - Common Desktop Environment
-**CDF** - (//Cadence//) Component Description Format
-**CFD** - Constant Fraction Discriminator
-**CIW** - (//Cadence//) Command Interpreter Window
-**CLM** - Channel Length Modulation (MOS short channel effect)
-**CM** - Common Mode
-**CMFB** - Common Mode Feedback
-**CMOS** - Complementary MOS
-**CMRR** - Common Mode Rejection Ratio
-**<nowiki>CMS</nowiki>** - (//CERN//) Compact Muon Solenoid experiment
-**corner** - a combination of variables and parameters that defines a best/worst case scenario
-**CSV** - (//file ext.//) Comma-Separated Values
-**<nowiki>CVS</nowiki>** - Concurrent Versioning System
-**C2MOS** - Clocked CMOS
-===== D =====
-**DAC** - Digital-to-Analog Converter
-**DAQ** - Data Acquisition
-**DB** - DataBase
-**dB** - (//unit//) decibel
-**DC** - Direct Current
-**DC-OP** - DC Operating Point
-**dc** - (//Spectre//) DC analysis
-**dcmatch** (//Spectre//) ???? analysis
-**DFF** - Delay Flip-Flop
-**DFII** - (//Cadence//) Design Framework II
-**DIBL** - Drain Induces Barrier Lowering (MOS short channel effect)
-**Diva** - //Cadence//'s layout verification tool
-**DNL** - Differential Non-Linearity
-**DRAM** - Dynamic RAM (Random Access Memory)
-**DRC** - Design Rule Check
-**DRM** - Design Rules Manual
-===== E =====
-**EDA** - Electronic Design Automation
-**EDI** - (//Cadence//) Encounter Digital Implementation
-**EDP** - Energy-Delay Product
-**ENC** - Equivalent Noise Charge
-**Encounter** - (//Cadence//) Place & Route tool
-**ENOB** - Effective Number Of Bits
-**envlp** - (//Spectre//) envelope analysis
-**EP** - (//fabrication service provider//) [[ http://www.europractice.com | Euro Practice]]
-**ERC** - Electrical Rule Check
-**ESD** - Electrostatic Discharge
-===== F =====
-**FET** - Filed Effect Transistor
-**FDK** - Foundry Design Kit
-**FF** - Flip-Flop
-**FF** - (//corner//) Fast NMOS, Fast PMOS
-**FIFO** - First In First Out
-**FOM** - Figure Of Merit
-**FOX** - (//CMOS process//) Field-Oxide
-**FPGA** - Field Programmable Gate Array
-**FS** - (//corner//) Fast NMOS, Slow PMOS
-**FFT** - (//DFT algorithm//) Fast Fourier Transform
-===== G =====
-**GBW** - [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gain–bandwidth_product | Gain-Banwidth product ]]
-**GBP** - same as **GBW**
-**GBWP** - same as **GBW**
-**GDSII** - (//file ext.//) [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDSII | Graphic Database System II ]]
-**<nowiki>GUI</nowiki>** - Graphical User Interface
-===== H =====
-**Hercule** - //Synopsys//'s layout verification tool
-**HDL** - Hardware Description Language
-**HEP** - High Energy Physics
-**HF** - (//Cadence//) Hot Fix
-**HSPICE** - //Mentor Graphics//'s circuit simulator
-**HV** - High Voltage
-**hvt** - High Vth transistor
-**HW** - Hardware
-===== I =====
-**IBM** - (//vendor//) [[ http://www.ibm.com | International Business Machines Corporation]]
-**IC** - Integrated Circuit
-**IC** - (//MOSFET//) Inversion Coefficient
-**icfb** - (//Cadence//) IC Front-to-Back
-**ICMR** - Input Common-Mode Range
-**I/O** - Input/Output
-**IOS** - Input Offset Storage (//offset cancellation technique//)
-**INL** - Integrated Non-Linearity
-===== J =====
-===== K =====
-**KCL** - Kirchoff's Current Law
-**KVL** - Kirchoff's Voltage Law
-===== L =====
-**LDO** - Low Drop-Out voltage regulator
-**LET** - Linear Energy Transfer (//dE/dx// )
-**LHS** - Latin Hypercube Sampling (MC algorithm)
-**LM** - (//Cadence//) Library Manager
-**LNA** - Low-Noise Amplifier
-**LOCOS** - (//process//) Local Oxidation of Silicon
-**LP** - Low-Power
-**LVDS** - Low-Voltage Differential Signaling
-**LV** - Low Voltage
-**LVS** - Layout Versus Schematic check
-**lvt** - Low Vth transistor
-**LSB** - Least Significant Bit
-**LSW** - (//layout//) Layer Selection Window
-===== M =====
-**MC** - Monte Carlo
-**metal stack** - number of metal layers available for the electrical interconnections
-**MIM** - Metal-Insulator-Metal capacitor
-**MIP** - Minimum Ionizing Particle
-**MOM** - Metal-Oxide-Metal capacitor
-**MOSIS** - (//fabrication service provider//) [[http://www.mosis.com | Metal Oxide Silicon Implementation Service]]
-**MOSFET** - Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
-**MMSIM** - (//Cadence//) Multi-Mode Simulation
-**MPC** - Multi-Project Chip
-**MPW** - Multi-Project Wafer
-**MSB** - Most Significant Bit
-**MUX** - Multiplexer
-**MVA** - Multivariate Analysis
-===== N =====
-**nch** - NMOS transistor
-**NDA** - Non-Disclosure Agreement
-**nfet** - NMOS transistor
-**NIM** - Nuclear and Instrument Methods
-**noise** - (//Spectre//) noise analysis
-===== O =====
-**OCEAN** - (//Cadence//) Open Command Environment for Analysis
-**OOS** - Output Offset Storage (//offset cancellation technique//)
-**OP-AMP** - [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_amplifier | Operational Amplifier ]]
-**<nowiki>OS</nowiki>** - Operating System
-**<nowiki>OSS</nowiki>** - (//Cadence//) Open Simulation System
-**OTA** - Operational Transconductance Amplifier
-===== P =====
-**pac** - (//Spectre//) periodic AC analysis
-**PCB** - Printed Circuit Board
-**PDP** - Power-Delay Product
-**pch** - PMOS transistor
-**<nowiki>PDF</nowiki>** - Probability Density Function
-**PDK** - [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_design_kit | Process Design Kit ]]
-**pfet** - PMOS transistor
-**PLL** Phase-Locked Loop circuit
-**PM** - Phase Margin
-**pnoise** - (//Spectre//) periodic noise analysis
-**PSD** - Power Spectrum Density
-**PSF** - (//Cadence//) Parameter Storage Format
-**PSI** - [[ http://www.psi.ch | Paul Sherrer Institute  ]]
-**psp** - (//Spectre//) periodic [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattering_parameters | S-parameters]] (Scattering) analysis
-**PSRR** - Power Supply Rejection Ratio
-**pss** - (//Spectre//) periodic steady-state analysis
-**pstb** - (//Spectre//) periodic ????? analysis
-**PTAT** - Proportional To Absolute Temperature
-**PU** - Pile-Up
-**PUC** - Pixel Unit Cell
-**PVT** - Process, Voltage and Temperature variations
-**pxf** - (//Spectre//) periodic transfer function analysis
-**pz** - (//Spectre//) pole-zero analysis
-===== Q =====
-**qpac** - (//Spectre//) quasi-periodic AC analysis
-**qpnoise** - (//Spectre//) quasi-periodic noise analysis
-**qpss** - (//Spectre//) quasi-periodic steady-state analysis
-**qpsp** - (//Spectre//) quasi-periodic S-parameters (Scattering) analysis
-**qpxf** - (//Spectre//) quasi-periodic transfer function analysis
-===== R =====
-**RC** - (//Cadence//) RTL Compiler, digital syntesis tool
-**//R & D//** - Research and Development
-**RHEL** - Red Hat Enterprise Linux
-**ROC** - Read-Out Chip
-**ROI** - Region Of Interest
-**RF** - Radio Frequency
-**RMS** - Root Mean Square
-**RSF** - (//Cadence Assura//) Run-Specific File
-**RTL** - Register Transfer Level
-**RVE** - (//Calibre//) Results Viewing Environment
-===== S =====
-**SCEs** - Short Channel Effects
-**SE** - (//Cadence//) Schematic Editor
-**sens** - (//Spectre//) sensitivity analysis
-**SEU** - Single Event Upset
-**SF** - (//corner//) Slow NMOS, Fast PMOS
-**SFDR** - Spurious Free Dynamic Range
-**SKILL** - //Cadence//'s scripting language
-**SL** - Scientific Linux
-**SLC** - Scientific Linux Cern
-**SNR** - Signal-to-Noise Ratio
-**SNDR** - Signal to Noise and Distortion Ratio
-**SoC** - System on Chip
-**SOI** - (//process//) Silicon On Insulator
-**sp** - (//Spectre//) [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattering_parameters | S-parameters ]] (Scattering) analysis
-**SPB** - (//Cadence//) Silicon Package Board, PCB design tool
-**Spectre** - //Cadence//'s circuit simulator
-**SPICE** - [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE | Simulation Program with Integrated Circuits Emphasis ]]
-**SR** - (//amplifier//) [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slew_rate | Slew Rate ]]
-**SRAM** - Static RAM (Random Access Memory)
-**SS** - (//corner//) Slow NMOS, Slow PMOS
-**stb** - (//Spectre//) ???? analysis
-**STI** - (//process//) Shallow Trench Isolation
-**SVRF** - (//Calibre//) Standard Verification Rule Format
-**SW** - Software
-===== T =====
-**TBD** - To Be Determined
-**TCL** - (//scripting language//) Tool Command Language
-**TDC** - Time-to-Digital Converter
-**TOT** - Time-Over-Threshold
-**TG** - Transmission Gate
-**TID** - Total Ionizing Dose (Total Irradiated Dose)
-**tran** - transient analysis
-**TSMC** - (//vendor//) [[ http://www.tsmc.com | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company]]
-**TT** - (//corner//) Typical NMOS, Typical PMOS
-**TVF** - (//Calibre//) TCL Verification Format
-**tw** - triple-well transistor
-===== U =====
-**ULP** - Ultra Low-Power
-**UMC** - (//vendor//) [[ http://www.umc.com | United Microelectronics Corporation]]
-===== V =====
-**VCCS** - Voltage-Controlled Current Source
-**VCO** - Voltage-Controlled Oscillator
-**VCVS** - Voltage-Controlled Voltage Source
-**VHDL** - VHSIC Hardware Description Language
-**VHSIC** - Very High Speed Integrated Circuits
-**ViVA** - (//Cadence//) Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis
-**VLSI** - Very Large Scale Integration
-**VTC** - Voltage Transfer Characteristic
-===== W =====
-**wrt** - short for //with reference to//
-===== X =====
-**xf** - (//Spectre//) transfer function analysis
-===== Y =====
-===== Z =====
-**ZDC** - Zero Degree Calorimeter
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-Last update: [[pacher@NOSPAMto.infn.it|Luca Pacher]] - July 11, 2013
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