• DocumentCode
    1094175
  • Title

    Power Grid Physics and Implications for CAD

  • Author

    Pant, Sanjay ; Chiprout, Eli ; Blaauw, David

  • Author_Institution
    Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor
  • Volume
    24
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    246
  • Lastpage
    254
  • Abstract
    This article describes a full-die dynamic model of an Intel Pentium IV microprocessor design. The authors show that transient supply noise is sensitive to nonuniform decoupling-capacitor distribution, and that supply-drop locality is a tight function of frequency and package-die resonance, leading to significant localized resonant effects.
  • Keywords
    CAD; distribution networks; grid computing; power consumption; power engineering computing; power system transients; CAD; Intel Pentium IV microprocessor design; frequency resonance; full-die dynamic model; nonuniform decoupling-capacitor distribution; package-die resonance; power grid physics; transient supply noise; Analytical models; Capacitors; Computational modeling; Inductance; Microprocessors; Packaging; Physics; Power grids; Power supplies; Resonance; L(di/dt); R; decap; locality; power supply networks; resonance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Design & Test of Computers, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0740-7475
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MDT.2007.78
  • Filename
    4288269