NanoCMOS Pilot Project Review

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Meeting the Design Challenges of Nano-CMOS
Electronics Introduction to an EPSRC Pilot
Project
Professor Richard O. Sinnott Technical Director
National e-Science Centre University of Glasgow
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University Partners
Advanced Processor Technologies Group (Prof S.
Furber) Device Modelling Group (PI Prof A.
Asenov) Electronic Systems Design Group (Prof M.
Zwolinksi) Intelligent Systems Group (Prof. A.
Tyrrell) National e-Science Centre Glasgow (Prof
R. Sinnott) Microsystems Technology Group (Prof.
D. Cumming) Mixed-Mode Design Group in IMNS
(Prof. A. Murray) National e-Science Centre
Edinburgh (Dr D. Berry) e-Science NorthWest
Centre (Dr S. Pickles)
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Industrial Partners
Global EDS vendor and world TCAD leader 600
licences of grid implementation, model
implementation
UK fabless design company and world
microprocessor leader Core IP, simulation tools,
staff time
Real businesses/users with clear demands on Grid
UK fabless design company and world mixed mode
leader Additional PhD studentship for mixed mode
design
Global semiconductor player with strong UK
presence Access to technology, device data,
processing
Global semiconductor player with strong UK
presence Access to technology, device data,
processing
Global semiconductor player with UK presence CASE
studentship, interconnects
Trade association of the microelectronics
industry in the UK Recruiting new industrial
partners and dissemination
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The Challenge
Toshiba 04
Device diversification 90nm HP, LOP, LSTP 45nm
UTB SOI 32nm Double gate
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The Challenge
trapping of a single electron in the channel
region of a device can alter its drive current
by more than 15
Geometry variation
Strain variation
Device
Circuit
Strain
OPC
malfunctioning
variability
Layout induced variability Technology - design
link
Atomistic variability Statistical and novel
design
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Timeliness
The industry needs to deliver a new generation
of chip design-tools to ease power and variance
problems, according to Intels chief technology
officer.
Develop radical new design methods and tools for
systems with over 100 billion nano-devices
exhibiting new characteristics and variability,
while reaching the objectives of low power
consumption, reliability, evolvability and
affordable design efforts.
Thematic Group 2 Nanoelectronics
and Nanotechnologies
EC Public Consultation 3 Feb 2006
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Delivering new results
Simple concept Integrated Hierarchical
Statistical Design
Complex data and workflows Data and Compute
Intensive Security Sensitive
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The Development Challenge
Electronic design teams currently use different
tools, have different data formats, need access
to large scale compute resources, generate vast
amounts of data, work independently of device
engineers. We propose to build an integrated
Grid infrastructure which will ....
da-da-daaah revolutionise nanoCMOS
design by making it a
completely integrated
collaborative process.
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Typical existing application
Balsa high-level asynch. circuit synthesis tool
used, e.g. for timing verification
Expressivity of myGrid Taverna, FreeFluo for this
domain?
Control loops for optimisation, concurrency needed
Feed requirements into OMII-UK for language and
enactment engine enhancements
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• Will focus on 4 key areas all targeted to real
  scientific needs
• Workflows Data mgt Security
  Resource mgt
• Workflows are fundamental to the way scientists
  want to work
• tighter dependencies between services (e.g.
  coupled simulations)
• Generating huge amounts of data in many
  different formats
• establishing metadata formats for a new industry
• Advanced security crucial to engage with
  industry
• introducing advanced security to the OMII-UK
  architecture allowing for the effect of
  licensing in managing workflow
• Extremely computational intense, they need
  intelligent job scheduling/mgt
• linking OMII-UK services to batch-oriented
  codes a marriage of the HPC-oriented Grid world
  and the user targeted service oriented
  architecture world
• Feed requirements to, and shape the future
  implementation of OMII-UK
• e-Science partners directly involved in OMII-UK
  
• Pickles, Berry on OMII-UK Technical Advisory
  Board
• Sinnott in OMII User Group

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Grid stretch focused on realising scientific
needs
Optimised nanoCMOS Grid Infrastructure
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Representative Scenario
Workflow for 90nm MOSFET using Taurus with
specific dopant concentration generating I-V
curves to be fed into Aurora parameter extraction
tool which will generate SPICE input files,
Which, when simulated, will drive a
visualisation application
GLASGOW
PDP
DevSim
Portal
SPICE
workflow
Service registry
4a
PDP
Enactment engine
MANCHESTER
5a
Aurora
Meta-Scheduler Planning Service
Taurus
SPICE
Design Catalogue (workflows) / Data Sets
EDINBURGH
PDP
Taurus
6b
PDP
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Why Shibboleth?

• Can solve licensing issues on Grid
• 451 group identified this as key area Grid
  community must address
• (IECnet)
• Fine grained authorisation readily supported by
  Shibboleth and associated technologies such as
  PERMIS
• Is being deployed across UK academia to replace
  existing Athens system
• essential to address gap between research and
  Grid communities
• consider number of active UK e-Science certs vs
  Athens accounts
• Future Grids must be harmonised with wider
  e-Infrastructure developments
• Using the Grid should be no different than using
  any other internet based system from researcher
  perspective

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DyVOSE Delegation Issuing Service
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Condor pool
Create new ACs for Glasgow nanoCMOS users/roles
LDAP
LDAP
Glasgow Education VO policies
Edinburgh Education VO policies
Glasgow nanoCMOS policies
Edinburgh nanoCMOS policies
shameless plug for demo at NeSC stall...
PERMIS based Authorisation checks/decisions
Job scheduling/ data management
Grid BLAST Data Service
Grid BLAST Service
Edinburgh nanoCMOS services
Glasgow nanoCMOS services
Edinburgh nanoCMOS data sets
Nucleotide Protein Sequence DB
Implemented by Students
data input
Protein/nucleotide sequence data returned based
on student team and Edinburgh policy
Glasgow nanoCMOS researchers
Grid-data Client
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Shibboleth-based access to/usage of Grid Resources
Roles, attributes, licenses, needed to make
authorisation decision
Distinguished Name
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OMII-UK NGSLife Sciences Gateway
Taken from Dr S. Newhouse presentation to UK
e-Science Directors on OMII-UK plans 08/03/2006
nanoCMOS

• Talk to us about other gateways
• Computational Chemistry
• Engineering
• Image Analysis

Bioinformatics Life Science Users
nanoCMOS Users
Middleware
Taverna
SOAPLab Services
GRIMOIRES
OMII e-Infrastructure Services
Core NGS Middleware
OGSA-DAI GridSAM
Hardware Resources
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• Questions?