Clock Grid Simulation using Transient S-parameter Modeling

Author

Kim, Kyung Ki ; Kim, Yong-Bin ; Park, N. ; Lombardi, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA

fYear

2006

fDate

24-27 April 2006

Firstpage

225

Lastpage

228

Abstract

Clock grid networks are now common in most high performance microprocessors. This paper presents a new effective modeling and analyzing methodology for clock grid using scattering parameter. It also describes an efficient approach to find the optimum clock grid specification, such as the width and space of the grid metal line. The interconnection of the clock grid is modeled by RC passive elements. The results show that the error is within 10% comparing to Hspice simulation results

Keywords

S-parameters; clocks; integrated circuit interconnections; microprocessor chips; RC passive elements; clock distribution; clock grid interconnection; clock grid simulation; gird metal line; microprocessors; scattering parameter; transient S-parameter modeling; Analytical models; Circuit simulation; Clocks; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Frequency; Grid computing; Microprocessors; Scattering parameters; Very large scale integration; Clock Distribution; Clock Grid; Scattering Parameter(S-parameter);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2006. IMTC 2006. Proceedings of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Sorrento

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9359-7

Electronic_ISBN

1091-5281

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2006.328403

Filename

4124314