Accurate interconnect modeling: towards multi-million transistor chips as microwave circuits

-- In this tutorial we discuss concepts and techniques for the accurate and efficient modeling and extraction of interconnect parasitics in VLSI designs. Due toincreasing operatingfrequencies, microwave-like effects will become important. Therefore stronger demands are put on extraction and verification tools. We indicate the state-of-the-art for capacitance, resistance and substrate resistance extraction and discuss some open problems. We also discuss several model reduction techniques as well as issues related to simulation and implementation in a CAD system.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: ICCAD
• Authors: N. P. van der Meijs, T. Smedes
• Keywords: Due Toincreasing Operatingfrequencies, Hardware, ICCAD 1996, Model Reduction Techniques, Substrate Resistance Extraction