A Fast Capacitance Extraction Engine

Author

Sun, Shilei ; Xue, Jintao ; Li Liu ; Wang, Gaofeng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., Wuhan Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1441

Lastpage

1443

Abstract

A fast interconnect capacitance extraction engine is realized and presented here. Employing a fast multipole accelerated generalized minimal residual (GMRES) based three-dimensional (3-D) field solver, this software tool can quickly and accurately extract parasitic capacitances of arbitrary interconnects embedded in piece-wise constant dielectrics. This engine is also capable of performing fast and accurate capacitance extraction for critical nets in radio frequency (RF) applications, IC designs, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The architecture of this extraction engine is described. Numerical examples are included to validate the extraction engine and demonstrate the capabilities of this extraction engine

Keywords

circuit analysis computing; integrated circuit interconnections; micromechanical devices; radiofrequency integrated circuits; software tools; 3D field solver; GMRES; arbitrary interconnects; interconnect capacitance extraction engine; multipole accelerated generalized minimal residual; parasitic capacitances extraction engine; piecewise constant dielectrics; software tool; Acceleration; Application software; Application specific integrated circuits; Dielectric constant; Engines; Microelectromechanical systems; Parasitic capacitance; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology, 2006. ICSICT '06. 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0160-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0161-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSICT.2006.306230

Filename

4098434