Analytic termination metrics for pin-to-pin lossy transmission lines with nonlinear drivers

Author

Gupta, Rohini ; Willis, John ; Pileggi, Lawrence

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Allentown, PA, USA

Volume

6

Issue

3

fYear

1998

Firstpage

457

Lastpage

463

Abstract

A significant percentage of the critical nets in high-performance systems are of the pin-to-pin type. To optimally design these nets such that signal integrity is preserved, efficient analytical metrics for transmission line termination are a valuable part of a system-level designer´s toolset. Using the symbolic moment-based expressions in this paper, proper termination can be determined via a single-step procedure, without any preprocessing steps and/or time-domain simulations. Driver nonlinearities and effects of nonzero rise-time are also considered in the proposed termination methodology.

Keywords

distributed parameter networks; driver circuits; method of moments; poles and zeros; transmission line theory; analytic termination metrics; critical nets; nonlinear drivers; nonzero rise-time; pin-to-pin lossy transmission lines; signal integrity; single-step procedure; symbolic moment-based expressions; transmission line termination; Damping; Dielectric losses; Distributed parameter circuits; Integrated circuit interconnections; Process design; Propagation losses; RLC circuits; Signal design; Transfer functions; Transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

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

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1063-8210

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/92.711316

Filename

711316