Fast simulation of VLSI interconnects

This paper introduces an efficient and accurate interconnect simulation technique. A new formulation for typical VLSI interconnect structures is proposed which, in addition to providing a compact set of modelling equations, also offers a potential for exploiting sparsity at the simulation level. Simulations show that our approach can achieve 50× improvement in computation time and memory over INDUCTWISE (which in turn has been shown to be 400× faster than SPICE) while preserving simulation accuracy.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ICCAD
• Authors: Jitesh Jain, Cheng-Kok Koh, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan
• Keywords: Accurate Interconnect Simulation, Hardware, ICCAD 2004, Simulation Accuracy, VLSI Interconnect Structures