Symbolic Analysis and Reduction of VLSI Circuits

• Main Authors: Qin, Zhanhai (Author), Tan, Sheldon X. D. (Author), Cheng, Chung-Kuan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Electrical Engineering.

The IC industry, including digital and analog circuit design houses, electrical design automation software vendors, library and IP providers, and foundries all face grand challenges in designing nanometer VLSI systems. The design productivity gap between nanometer VLSI technologies and today’s desig...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamentals
• Basics Of Circuit Analysis
• Linear VLSI Circuits
• Model-Order Reduction
• Generalized Y-? Transformation — Fundamental Theory
• Generalized Y-? Transformation — Advance Topics
• Y-? Transformation: Application I — Model Stabilization
• Y-? Transformation: Application II — Realizable Parasitic Reduction
• Analog VLSI Circuits
• Topological Analysis of Passive Networks
• Exact Symbolic Analysis Using Determinant Decision Diagrams
• S-Expanded Determinant Decision Diagrams for Symbolic Analysis
• DDD Based Approximation for Analog Behavioral Modeling
• Hierarchical Symbolic Analysis and Hierarchical Model Order Reduction.