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A Fast Simulation Approach For Inductive Effects of VLSI Interconnects M
A Fast Simulation Approach For Inductive Effects of VLSI Interconnects M
Introduction
What is Interconnect?
Inductance effects on Bus wires
System overview
Modeling for accurate inductive effect
Simulation examples
Conclusion
References
inductive effect.
non-ideal ground
and de-coupling
sophistication
specific
bus
geometries.
Linearized
complexity.The
design
incorporated
into
an
interconnect
of
and
powerful
and
flexible
simulation.
addition,
non-ideal
de-coupling
capacitor
ground
and
In
I: INTRODUCTION
integration
fifth
(VLSI).Now
we
are
ultra
large
scale
integration (ULSI).
Year
1980
leisure activities.
Technology
Approximate
1950
1990
1961
1966
transistors
per chip
Typical
Invention
Discrete
of the
components
transistor
1
products
1971
SSI
MSI
LSI
10
100-1000
20,000-
10
10,00,000
1,0
16
2000
number of
1947
Junction
Planar
Counters,
8bit
transistor
devices,
Multiplexers
micro-
and diode
logic
adders
gates,
effects:
flipReduction in
7m-10m
feature size
types
capacitive,
of parasitic
resistive
and
circuit behavior.
1. An introduction of noise, which
over years
Ease of
simple
medium
Interconnect
III: INDUCTANCE
EFFECTS ON BUS
WIRES
II: WHAT IS
INTERCONNECT
An
three
flops
12m
introduces
interconnect
in
VLSI
design
In
multi-gigahertz
designs,
routs
While
are
the
submicron
and
actual
reduced
and
performance
dominate
in
technologies.
aggravated
circuit.
This
by
the
situation
fact
is
that
effects.Interconnect
wire
ignoring
microprocessor
parallel wires.
the
parasitic
industry
examples.Meanwhile,
the
inductive
can
problems
cause
for
coupling,
more
delays
wider
inductive
and
noise.
IV:SYSTEM
OVERVIEW
There has been some previously reported
work on improving the efficiency of
simulating
interconnects
including
model
is
due
to
Pad
worse
realistic
and
jeopardizes
the
signal
fast
bus
and
simulation,
practical
packaging
integrity.
included
capacitors (decaps).
with
on-chip
de-coupling
simulation tool.
for
accurate
V: MODELING FOR
ACCURATE
INDUCTIVE
EFFECT
simulation
speed
while
validate
the
RLC
simulation
capabilities.
In Section VII the conclusions are
present.
linearity
outputs.
of
device,
fast
Figure
shows
driver
output
to
the
non-linearity
of
the
same
impedance
to
have
fast
Section
characterized
waveforms
VI,
the
piece-wise
and
the
real
prelinear
driver
signal waveforms.
delay).
Unlike an RC extraction/simulation
simulation.
The
connection
provide
discharging
currents
frequencies
when
charging
at
the
and
very
high
on-chip
VI: SIMULATION
EXAMPLES
scheme.
Using
0.18
VII: CONCLUSIONS
time-domain
transient
Figure.
shows
the
two
noise
inductance.
With tap models and decaps, bus
simulation becomes more realistic, and
ground bounce can also be observed.
Results from the proposed method are in
a very good agreement with the ones
from
SPICE
simulation
while
the
VIII: REFERENCES
[1]: Basic VLSI design Douglas
A.Pucknell, Kamran Eshraghian.
[2]: Modern VLSI design Wayne
Wolf.
[3]: Digital integrated circuits
Jan M.Rabaey.
[4]: IEEE Journal on On-chip
wiring
design
challenges
for