Title :
Hierarchical Block Boundary Element Method for Substrate Resistance Calculation
Author :
Zheng, Lanzhou ; Yu, Wenjian ; Wang, Zeyi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing
Abstract :
It is important to model the substrate coupling for today´s mixed-signal circuit design. This paper presents the hierarchical block boundary element method (HBBEM) for substrate resistance calculation. HBBEM, which can extract the whole interconnect capacitance matrix with once computation, is applied to the substrate resistance calculation. Experiments show that the proposed method is able to produce results with comparable accuracy, and of higher efficiency than existing methods both in running time and memory usage
Keywords :
boundary-elements methods; hierarchical systems; integrated circuit design; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; hierarchical block boundary element method; mixed-signal circuit design; substrate resistance calculation; Boundary element methods; Capacitance; Coupling circuits; Electric potential; Electric resistance; Finite difference methods; Green´s function methods; Integral equations; Integrated circuit noise; Laplace equations;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology, 2006. ICSICT '06. 8th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0160-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0161-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICSICT.2006.306627
