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Migration of the Cell Broadband Engine to 45nm SOI 

The paper describes some of the main challenges in the latest process shrink for the Cell Broadband Engine, developed jointly by IBM, Sony and Toshiba. The authors show how the move from a 65nm to a 45nm SOI process was achieved by concentrating on four primary goals:

  1. automating the migration;
  2. setting a 30% power reduction target;
  3. setting a 30% area reduction target; and
  4. promoting design for manufacturability (DFM).

The extensive use of IBM’s in-house developed tool, Migration Assistant Shape Handler, is also described.

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