The ability to compute the parasitic inductance of the interconnect is critical to the timing verification of modern VLSI circuits. A challenging aspect of inductance extraction i...
As the family of Alpha microprocessors continues to scale into more advanced technologies with very high frequency edge rates and multiple layers of interconnect, the issue of cha...
Congestion estimation is an important issue for the success of the VLSI layout. Fast congestion estimation provides an efficient means to adjust the placement and wire planning. A...
A methodology for reducing ground bounce in typical microprocessors and image processing architectures has been described. As we approach Gigascale Integration, chip power consump...
Mondira Deb Pant, Pankaj Pant, D. Scott Wills, Viv...
The improved T and improved n models are proposed for onchip interconnect macromodeling. Using global approximations, simple approximation frames are derived and applied to modeli...