As the VLSI technology scaling down, the electromigration problem becomes one of the major concerns in high-performance IC design for both power network and signal interconnects. ...
Muzhou Shao, D. F. Wong, Youxin Gao, Li-Pen Yuan, ...
The optimum wire shape to produce the minimum signal propagation delay across an RLC line is shown to exhibit a general exponential form. The line inductance makes exponential tap...
Each new semiconductor technology node brings smaller, faster transistors and smaller, slower wires. In particular, long interconnect wires in modern FPGAs now require rebuffering ...
As the process technology advances into the deep submicron era, interconnect plays a dominant role in determining circuit performance. Buffer insertion/sizing and wire sizing are ...
Nicholas Chia-Yuan Chang, Yao-Wen Chang, Iris Hui-...
Abstract--A SMART repeater is proposed for driving capacitively-coupled, global-length on-chip interconnects that alters its drive strength dynamically to match the relative bit pa...