A study of a hybrid phase-pole macromodel for transient simulation of complex interconnects structures

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

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1250-1261

  Zhong, Bing ^a   Hu, Tao ^b   Fu, Dawei ^a   Dvorak, Steven L ^a   Prince, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Sigrity   (China)

Author keywords

Hybrid phase pole macromodel; Interconnect; Macromodels; Method of characteristics; Transmission line

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DELAY CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC LINES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SHIFT;

EXPONENTIALLY DECAYED POLYNOMIAL (EDP); HYBRID PHASE-POLE MACROMODEL; MACROMODELS; METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 23744449605     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2005.850817     Document Type: Article

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