Fast evaluation of digital switching noise for synthesis of mixed-signal applications

Author

Doboli, Alex ; Vemuri, Ranga

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

37

Abstract

This paper presents a novel symbolic analysis method for transient analysis of digital switching noise (DSN). The method relies on symbolic techniques to express the voltage variations at the power pins of analog blocks depending on the DSN at the switching digital blocks. The paper discusses the modeling of DSN propagation including the representation of the substrate coupling, contacts to the power supplies and power buses. Experiments support the correctness of the method and showed significant speed-ups of simulation time as related to SPICE simulation

Keywords

SPICE; circuit CAD; circuit simulation; digital simulation; integrated circuit noise; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; transient analysis; SPICE simulation; analog blocks; digital switching noise; experiments; mixed analog digital integrated circuits; mixed-signal chip design; power buses; power supplies; substrate coupling; switching digital blocks; symbolic analysis method; transient analysis; voltage variations; Analog circuits; Circuit noise; Coupling circuits; Crosstalk; High level synthesis; Integrated circuit noise; Pins; Power supplies; Semiconductor device noise; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Behavioral Modeling and Simulation, 2001. BMAS 2001. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Santa Rosa, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7291-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMAS.2001.962494

Filename

962494