Title :
Analysis of pulse propagation on high-speed VLSI chips
Author :
Nakhla, Michel S.
Abstract :
A method is presented for the analysis of lossy interconnections terminated with nonlinear loads. The crux of the method is a piecewise decomposition technique that decomposes the nonlinear network into linear and nonlinear subnetworks. The linear subnetworks contain the distributed models for the interconnections. The terminals of the subnetworks are excited by piecewise linear sources. The linear subnetworks are solved in the frequency domain and the nonlinear subnetworks are solved in the time domain. Newton´s iterations are used to adjust the parameters of the piecewise linear sources so that the topological and constitutive relations of each subnetwork, as well as the topological equations resulting from the interconnection of the subnetworks, are satisfied
Keywords :
VLSI; digital integrated circuits; distributed parameter networks; nonlinear network analysis; Newton´s iterations; analysis of lossy interconnections; constitutive relations; distributed models; frequency domain; high-speed VLSI chips; linear subnetworks; nonlinear loads; nonlinear subnetworks; piecewise decomposition technique; piecewise linear sources; pulse propagation analysis; time domain; topological equations;
Conference_Titel :
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 1989., Proceedings of the IEEE 1989
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
DOI :
10.1109/CICC.1989.56749
