A timing model of GHz e-shape interconnection

Author

Zhou, Lili ; Zhao, Wenquing ; Zeng, Xuan

Author_Institution

Microelectron. Dept., Fudan Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

67

Lastpage

70

Abstract

Driven by the demands of increasing GHz frequency applications, it is a very important target to decrease the delay of VLSI interconnection according to the theory deduction and simulation. The e-shape interconnection model has been proved to have less delay than the equal-width fine model based on Elmore delay. Considering the difficulties of duducing the theory of the RCL model of e-line, we use an effective way to deal with the RCL model in deducing the transmission mechanism of e-line interconnection by referring to methods used in microwave transmission fine theory and inspired by the technology process. A more applicable RCL e-line model is presented

Keywords

VLSI; delay estimation; high-speed integrated circuits; integrated circuit interconnections; integrated circuit modelling; timing; transmission line theory; GHz e-shape interconnection; GHz frequency applications; RCL e-line model; VLSI interconnection; e-shape interconnection model; microwave transmission fine theory; timing model; Delay; Frequency; Inductance; Integrated circuit interconnections; Laplace equations; Microwave technology; Microwave theory and techniques; Timing; Transmission line matrix methods; Transmission line theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ASIC, 2001. Proceedings. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6677-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASIC.2001.982500

Filename

982500