Three-Dimensional Capacitance Evaluation on a Connection Machine

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1988, Pages 1125-1133

  Guerrieri, Roberto ^a   Sangiovanni Vincentelli, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL;

CAPACITANCE EVALUATION; CONNECTION MACHINES; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTIONS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; INTERCONNECT LINE CAPACITANCE;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, VLSI;

EID: 0024104808     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: 19374151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/43.9183     Document Type: Article

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