Title :
Floorplan-aware decoupling capacitance budgeting on equivalent circuit model
Author :
Yan, Jin-Tai ; Lin, Kai-Ping ; Luo, Yue-Fong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Chung-Hua Univ., Hsinchu
Abstract :
In this paper, based on an equivalent circuit model for any noise-aware power network, an accurate estimation uses an exponential discharge style in the equivalent RC circuit to predict the decoupling capacitance(decap) size of any circuit module in a given floorplan. Furthermore, a floorplan-aware budgeting approach is proposed to assign feasible decaps onto all the circuit modules to release all the IR-drop noises in the floorplan. The experimental results show that our proposed budgeting approach based on an accurate estimation obtains very promising results for MCNC benchmark circuits
Keywords :
RC circuits; capacitance; circuit layout; circuit noise; current distribution; equivalent circuits; low-power electronics; power electronics; IR-drop noises; equivalent RC circuit; equivalent circuit model; floorplan-aware decoupling capacitance budgeting; noise-aware power network; Capacitance; Circuit noise; Circuit topology; Computer science; Design optimization; Equivalent circuits; Network topology; Power engineering and energy; Voltage; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2006. ISCAS 2006. Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Island of Kos
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9389-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1692954