Transient Simulation of Lossy Interconnects Based on the Recursive Convolution Formulation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 879-892

  Lin, Shen ^a   Kuh, Ernest S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC WIRING; ERROR ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR NETWORKS; SKIN EFFECT; TRANSIENTS;

CONVOLUTION SIMULATION; DIGITAL CMOS CIRCUITS; LOSSY INTERCONNECTS; MULTICHIP MODULES; PADE APPROXIMATIONS; TIMING SIMULATION; TRANSIENT SIMULATION; TRANSMISSION SIMULATION; VLSI DESIGN;

TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

EID: 0026944320     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/81.199887     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. S. Lin, M. Marek-Sadowska, and Ernest Kuh, “SWEC: A stepwise equivalent conductance timing simulator for CMOS VLSI circuits,” in Proc. EDAC, pp. 142–148, Feb. 1991.
2. S. Lin, E. Kuh, and M. Marek-Sadowska, “Stepwise equivalent conductance circuit simulation technique,” IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design, to be published.
3. S. Lin and E. Kuh, “Transient simulation of lossy interconnect,” in Proc. 29th Design Automation Conf., pp. 81–86, June 1992.
4. —, “Pade approximation applied to transient simulation of lossy coupled transmission lines,” in Proc. IEEE Multi-Chip Module Conf., pp. 52–55, 1992.
5. A. R. Djordjevi’c, T. K. Sarkar, and R. F. Harrington, “Analysis of lossy transmission lines with arbitrary nonlinear terminal networks,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. MTT-34, pp. 660–666, June 1986.
6. J.R. Griffith and M. S. Nakhla, “Time-domain analysis of lossy coupled transmission lines,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. 38, pp. 1480–1487, Oct. 1990.
7. J. S. Roychowdhury and D. O. Pederson, “Efficient transient simulation of lossy interconnect,” in Proc. 28th Design Automation Conf., pp. 740–745, June 1991.
8. F. Y. Chang, “Waveform relaxation analysis of RLGC transmission lines,” IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst., vol. CAS-37, pp. 1394–1415, Nov. 1990.
9. L. T. Pillage and R. A. Rohrer, “Asymptotic waveform evaluation for timing analysis,” IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design, vol. 9, pp. 352–366, Apr. 1990.
10. S. P. McCormick and J. Allen, “Waveform moment methods for improved interconnection analysis,” in Proc. 27th Design Automation Conf, pp. 406–412, June 1990.
11. T. K. Tang and M. S. Nakhla, “Analysis of high-speed VLSI interconnects using the asymptotic waveform evaluation technique,” in Proc. ICCAD, pp. 542–545, Nov. 1990.
12. J. E. Schutt-Aine and R. Mittra, “Scattering parameter transient analysis of transmission lines loaded with nonlinear terminations,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. MTT-36, pp. 529–536, 1988.
13. D. Winklestein, M. B. Steer, and R. Pomerleau, “Simulation of arbitrary transmission line network with nonlinear terminations,” IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst., vol. 38, pp. 418–412, 1991.
14. J. E. Schutt-Aine and R. Mittra, “Nonlinear transient analysis of coupled transmission lines,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. MTT-36, 959–967, 1989.
15. J. S. Roychowdhury, A. R. Newton, and D. O. Pederson, “An impulse-response based linear time-complexity algorithm for lossy interconnect simulation,” in Proc. ICCAD, pp. 62–65, 1991.
16. R. Wang and O. Wing, “Analysis of VLSI multiconductor systems by bi-level waveform relaxation,” in Proc. ICCAD, pp. 166–169, 1991.
17. F. Romeo and M. Santomauro, “Time-domain simulation of n coupled transmission lines,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. MTT-36, pp. 131–136, Feb. 1987.
18. D. Gao, A. T. Yang, and S. M. Kang, “Modeling and simulation of interconnection delays and crosstalks in high-speed integrated circuits,” IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst., vol. CAS-37, pp. 1–9, Jan. 1990.
19. N. S. Nahman and D. R. Holt, “Transient analysis of coaxial cables using the skin effect approximation A + (Formula Omitted)” IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst., vol. CAS-19, pp. 443–451, 1972.
20. A. Semiyen and A. Dabuleanu, “Fast and accurate switching transient calculation on transmission lines with ground return using recursive convolution,” IEEE Trans. Power Apparatus Syst., vol. PAS-94, pp. 561–571, 1975.
21. K. Singhal and J. Vlach, Computer Methods for Circuit Analysis and Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983, pp. 291–293.
22. R. L. Fox and M. P. Kapoor, “Rates of change of eigenvalues and eigenvectors,” AIAA J., vol. 6, pp. 2426–2429, Dec. 1968.
23. R. Plonsey and R. E. Collin, Principles and Application of Electromagnetic Fields. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961, pp. 280–282.
24. M. M. Alaybeyi, J. E. Bracken, J. Y. Lee, V. Raghavan, R. J. Trihy, and R. A. Rohrer, “Analysis of MCMs using asymptotic waveform evaluation (AWE),” in Proc. IEEE Multi-Chip Module Conf., pp. 48–51, 1992.