IC Interconnect Analysis

• Main Authors: Celik, Mustafa (Author), Pileggi, Lawrence (Author), Odabasioglu, Altan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer-aided engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Electrical Engineering.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.

As integrated circuit (IC) feature sizes scaled below a quarter of a micron, thereby defining the deep submicron (DSM) era, there began a gradual shift in the impact on performance due to the metal interconnections among the active circuit components. Once viewed as merely parasitics in terms of the...

Table of Contents:

• The Elmore Delay
• Higher-Order RC(L) Delay Metrics
• Asymptotic Waveform Evaluation
• Moment Generation
• Passive Reduced-Order Multiport Models
• Interfacing with SPICE
• Interfacing Interconnect and Gate-Delay Models.