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Author: Hetaswi Vankani, Adithya Venkatramanan, Dr. Dong S. Ha


k.  If you wish to do dynamic analysis, repeat steps i and j with the following specifications:

i.  Dynamic vectorless: Power Analysis Mode: Dynamic – Vectorless. Select powergrid libraries generated from power_library. Rest of the procedure remains same as in step i and step j.

ii.  Dynamic vectored: Power Analysis Mode: Dynamic – Vectorebased. Run Power Analysis: Load VCD file that was created in frontend design tutorials on cadence tools.

l.  Rail Analysis – set mode

i.  Power & Rail → Set Rail Analysis Mode

ii.  PowerGrid Libraries: power_library/fast_allcells.cl

iii.  Analysis View: typical_view

iv.  Advanced tab: Temperature: 25 Degree Celsius (for our case, typical view temperature is 25 deg C)

v.  Hit OK

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Fig 06. Set Rail Analysis Mode