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Tap cells are used to connect power and ground pins to the substrate or wells to reduce resistance and prevent latch-up issues. Tie cells connect transistor gates to power or ground to prevent damage from power/ground bouncing. End cap cells are placed at the ends of rows to avoid manufacturing issues and meet design rules. Decap cells contain capacitors to reduce dynamic voltage drop by supplying current from charge storage during periods of high current draw.

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Cells

Tap cells are used to connect power and ground pins to the substrate or wells to reduce resistance and prevent latch-up issues. Tie cells connect transistor gates to power or ground to prevent damage from power/ground bouncing. End cap cells are placed at the ends of rows to avoid manufacturing issues and meet design rules. Decap cells contain capacitors to reduce dynamic voltage drop by supplying current from charge storage during periods of high current draw.

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TAP CELLS

 Avoids Latch up Problem(Placing these cells with a


particular distance).
 Cells are physical-only cells that have power and ground pins and
don't have signal pins.
 Tap cells are well-tied cells that bias the silicon infrastructure of
n-wells or p-wells.
 They are traditionally used so that Vdd or Gnd are connected to
substrate or n-well respectively.
 This is to Help TIE Vdd and Gnd which results in lesser drift and
prevention from latch up.
 Required by some technology libraries to limit resistance between
Power or Ground connections to well of the substrate.
TIE CELLS
 It is used for preventing Damage of cells;
 Tie High cell(Gate One input is connected to Vdd, another input is
connected to signal net);
 Tie low cells Gate one input is connected to Vss, another input is
connected to signal .
 Tie - high and Tie - low cells are used to connect the gate of the
transistor to either Power and Ground.
 In lower technology nodes, if the gate is connected to Power or
Ground. The transistor might be turned "ON/OFF" due
to Power or Ground Bounce.
 These cells are part of the std cell library.
 The cells which require Vdd(Typically constant signals tied to 1)
conncet to tie high cells.
 The cells which require Vss/Vdd (Typically constant signals tied to 0)
connect to tie low cells.
END CAP CELLS
 To Know the end of the row, and At the edges endcap cells are placed to
avoid the cells damages at the end of the row to avoid wrong laser
wavelength for correct manufacturing.
 Add Endcap cells at both Ends of a cell row.
 Endcap cells surrounding the core area features which serve as second
poly to cells
 placed at the edge of row.
 The library cells do not have cell connectivity as they are only
connected to Power and Ground rail,
 Thus ensure that gaps do not occur between "WELL" and "IMPLANT
LAYER" and to prevent the DRC violations by satisfying "WELL TIE -
OFF" requirements for core rows we use End cap cells.
 Usually adding the "Well Extension" for DRC correct designs.
 End caps are a "POLY EXTENSION" to avoid drain source SHORT
DECAP CELLS
 Charge Sharing; To avoid the Dynamic IR drop ,charge stores in
the cells and release the charge to Nets.
 Decoupling capacitor cells , or Decap cells, are cells that have a
capacitor placed.
 Between the Power rail and Ground rail to Over come Dynamic
voltage drop.
 Dynamic IR Drop happens at the active edge of the clock at
which a High currents is drawn from the Power Grid for a small
Duration.
 If the Power is far from a flop the chances are there that flop can
go into Metastable State.
 To overcome decaps are added , when current requirements is
High this Decaps discharges and provide boost to the power grid.
BOUNDRY CELL
 It breaks the n-well in a way avoiding any DRCs

 Boundary cells protect your design from external


signals

 Different Boundary cells are used for left, right,


bottom, top and also corners. They all have different
layouts.

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