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Between 2026-09-30 11:59 p.m. and 2026-11-01 12:00 a.m.
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I'm trying to get decent performance out of a design, and the gap between the slow and fast corner is massive. But I don't really need the full quasi-military range of -40/125 and 4.5/5.5 ; I'm replicating a chip whose original specifications were for 0/70 and 4.75/5.25. Is there any plan to characterize additional corners with reduced range, like 0/85 and 4.75/5.25 that would help with timings for devices intended for commercial rather than industrial/military use?
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Chips4Makers aka Staf Verhaegen 2026-10-08 8:59 a.m.
A sidenote. The voltage range for the corners includes both external voltage drop and on-chip voltage drop. I have seen total +/- 10% with dividing it equally over both e.g. 5% external and 5% on-chip. This matches to have 4.5/5.5 spec no-chip for external vdd spec of 4.75/5.25.
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@Melkhior Characterization of the 5V cells comes from the foundry, don't expect an update.
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2026-10-09 11:42 p.m.
Unless you plan to migrate to your own maskset and tape out millions of parts, having improved level of detail is probably not that useful?
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