Lossy transmission line passive macromodeling algorithm - three case studies

Author

Dounavis, Anestis ; Elfadel, I.M. ; Achar, R. ; Nakhla, M. ; Ruehli, Albert E. ; Huang, H.-M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

2002

fDate

21-23 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

355

Lastpage

358

Abstract

The rapid increase in operating speeds, density and complexity of modern integrated circuits has made interconnect analysis a requirement for all state-of-the-art circuit simulators. Recently, a passive closed-form optimal matrix-rational approximation based algorithm has been developed for macromodeling of lossy multiconductor transmission lines. This paper presents three case studies for optimal matrix rational approximation and provides a performance comparison with the conventional lumped discretization.

Keywords

SPICE; circuit simulation; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit interconnections; integrated circuit modelling; multiconductor transmission lines; optimisation; transient response; transmission line matrix methods; IC speed/density/complexity; SPICE; circuit simulation; interconnect analysis; lossy transmission line passive macromodeling algorithms; lumped discretization methods; macromodel impulse response; multiconductor transmission lines; passive closed-form optimal matrix-rational approximations; transient response; Approximation algorithms; Circuit simulation; Computer aided software engineering; Distributed parameter circuits; Equations; Frequency; Propagation losses; Time domain analysis; Transmission line matrix methods; Transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging, 2002 IEEE 11th Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7451-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPEP.2002.1057949

Filename

1057949