Modeling and Analysis of Power Distribution Networks for Gigabit Applications

—As the operating frequency of digital systems increases and voltage swing decreases, it becomes very important to characterize and analyze power distribution networks (PDNs) accurately. This paper presents the modeling, simulation, and characterization of the PDN in a high-speed printed circuit board (PCB) designed for chip-to-chip communication at a data rate of 3.2 Gbps. The test board consists of transmitter and receiver chips wirebonded onto plastic ball grid array (PBGA) packages on a PCB. In this paper, a hybrid method has been applied for analysis which consists of the Transmission Matrix Method (TMM) in the frequency domain and Macromodeling method in the time domain. As an initial step, power/ground planes have been modeled using TMM. Then, the macromodel of the power/ground planes has been generated at the desired ports using macromodeling. Finally, the macromodel of the planes, transmission lines, and nonlinear drivers have been simulated in standard SPICE-based circuit s...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ISQED
• Authors: Wendemagegnehu T. Beyene, Chuck Yuan, Joong-Ho Kim, Madhavan Swaminathan
• Keywords: Hardware, ISQED 2003, Power Supply Noise, Power/ground Planes, Transmission Matrix Method