Advanced Field-Solver Techniques for RC Extraction of Integrated Circuits

• Main Authors: Yu, Wenjian (Author), Wang, Xiren (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer simulation.; Computer-aided engineering.; Computer mathematics.; Numerical analysis.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Numerical Analysis.; Simulation and Modeling.

Resistance and capacitance (RC) extraction is an essential step in modeling the interconnection wires and substrate coupling effect in nanometer-technology integrated circuits (IC). The field-solver techniques for RC extraction guarantee the accuracy of modeling, and are becoming increasingly import...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Basic Field-Solver Techniques for RC Extraction
• Fast Boundary Element Methods for Capacitance Extraction (I)
• Fast Boundary Element Methods for Capacitance Extraction (II)
• Resistance Extraction of Complex 3-D Interconnects
• Substrate Resistance Extraction with Boundary Element Method
• Extracting Frequency-Dependent Substrate Parasitics
• Process Variation Aware Capacitance Extraction
• Statistical Capacitance Extraction Based on Continuous-Surface Geometric Model
• Fast Floating Random Walk Method for Capacitance Extraction
• FRW Based Solver for Chip-Scale Large Structures.