Short-circuit power analysis of an inverter driving an RLC load

Author

Rui Wang ; Roy, Kairshik ; Koh, Cheng-Kok

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

6-9 May 2001

Firstpage

886

Abstract

The demand for powerfull computational machines using scaled technologies has brought power dissipation to the forefront. Hence, there is a need to accurately model power dissipation in such technologies where both capacitive and inductive effects are important. In this paper, we accurately model short-circuit power dissipation of an inverter driving an RLC load. A closed form expression is derived based on the analysis of the inverter in different conducting regions during an input transition. We applied the proposed model to a 0.18 um Cu technology, and compared the result with SPICE simulation. Our model has an accuracy of 90% with respect to SPICE

Keywords

SPICE; integrated circuit modelling; logic gates; 0.18 micron; Cu; Cu interconnect; RLC load; SPICE simulation; computational machine; deep sub-micron integrated circuit; inverter; power dissipation model; short-circuit power analysis; technology scaling; Energy consumption; Inverters; Kirchhoff´s Law; Power dissipation; Power engineering and energy; Power engineering computing; Programmable control; RLC circuits; SPICE; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2001. ISCAS 2001. The 2001 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6685-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2001.922380

Filename

922380