Generalized FDTD-ADI: An unconditionally stable full-wave Maxwell's equations solver for VLSI Interconnect Modeling

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, ICCAD

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 156-163

  Chen, Charlie C P ^a   Lee, Tae Woo ^a   Murugesan, Narayanan ^a   Hagness, Susan C ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; HIGH-SPEED VLSI INTERCONNECTS; PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYER; SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPACE; TIME-STEPPING SCHEMES; UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ALTERNATING IMPLICIT DIRECTION; ARTIFICIAL LOSSY MATERIALS; COURANT LIMIT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FULL WAVE MAXWELL EQUATION; INTERCONNECT MODELING; PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYER; REALISTIC LOSSY MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATES;

EID: 0034481508     PISSN: 10923152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCAD.2000.896466     Document Type: Conference Paper

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