Efficient passive macromodels for lossy multiconductor transmission lines using high order finite element method

Author

Sampath, Madhusudanan K. ; Dounavis, Anestis

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng.,, Western Ontario Univ., London, Ont., Canada

fYear

2005

fDate

24-26 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

191

Lastpage

194

Abstract

This paper presents a new closed-form passive time-domain macromodeling algorithm for distributed lossy multiconductor transmission lines (MTLs). The method is based on a sixth order finite element method (FEM) approximation and offers an efficient means to discretize MTLs compared to conventional lumped discretization (Paul, 1994) while preserving the passivity of the macromodel. It is shown that due to the high efficiency of sixth order approximation, the proposed macromodel requires only a few elements to achieve good accuracy. In addition, the FEM macromodel can include frequency-dependent per-unit-length (p.u.l.) parameters and can be extended to nonuniform transmission-lines (NUTLs).

Keywords

approximation theory; finite element analysis; integrated circuit interconnections; integrated circuit modelling; multiconductor transmission lines; time-domain analysis; FEM approximation; closed-form macromodeling algorithm; high order finite element method; lumped discretization; multiconductor transmission lines; nonuniform transmission-lines; passive macromodeling algorithm; passive macromodels; sixth order approximation; time-domain macromodeling algorithm; Chebyshev approximation; Conductors; Dielectric losses; Distributed parameter circuits; Finite element methods; Frequency; Integrated circuit interconnections; Multiconductor transmission lines; Propagation losses; Transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging, 2005. IEEE 14th Topical Meeting on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9220-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPEP.2005.1563734

Filename

1563734