Simulation and modeling of the effect of substrate conductivity on coupling inductance and circuit crosstalk

Author

Massoud, Yehia ; White, Jacob

Author_Institution

Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

Volume

10

Issue

3

fYear

2002

fDate

6/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

286

Lastpage

291

Abstract

The goal of this work was to simulate the effect of the finite conductivity of semiconductor substrates on the on-chip coupling inductance and then to investigate the effect of the on-chip coupling inductance on circuit crosstalk. In addition, the limitations of standard approaches for estimating coupling inductance are examined. A method for the reduction of the coupling inductance and its effect on circuit crosstalk is also discussed.

Keywords

circuit simulation; crosstalk; earthing; electromagnetic coupling; finite volume methods; inductance; iterative methods; mesh generation; FastHenry program; circuit crosstalk; coupling inductance reduction; discretized equation; fast multipole algorithm; finite conductivity effect; ideal ground-plane assumption; magnetoquasistatic coupling; mesh formulation; modeling; on-chip coupling inductance; semiconductor substrates; simulation; two-loop model; Circuit simulation; Conductivity; Conductors; Coupling circuits; Crosstalk; Frequency; Inductance; Integrated circuit interconnections; Predictive models; Substrates;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1063-8210

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TVLSI.2002.1043331

Filename

1043331