TCAD
2002
13 years 10 months ago
2002
As very large scale integration (VLSI) circuit speed rapidly increases, the inductive effects of interconnect lines strongly impact the signal integrity of a circuit. Since these i...
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2007
ACM
The scaling of CMOS technology into the nanometer era enables the fabrication of highly integrated systems, which increasingly contain analog and/or RF parts. However, scaling into...
DATE
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
Interconnect tuning is an increasingly critical degree of freedom in the physical design of high-performance VLSI systems. By interconnect tuning, we refer to the selection of lin...
VLSID
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Interconnect tuning and repeater insertion are necessary to optimize interconnectdelay, signalperformanceandintegrity, andinterconnectmanufacturability and reliability. Repeater i...
ISCAS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Current mode (ECL) logic has long been the option of choice in those applications requiring logic functions at multigigahertz rates. This trend continues despite the obvious very ...
DSD
2002
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2002
IEEE
Continuing VLSI technology scaling raises several deep submicron (DSM) problems like relatively slow interconnect, power dissipation and distribution, and signal integrity. Those ...
DATE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
As the technology is shrinking and the working frequency is going into multi gigahertz range, the issues related to interconnect testing are becoming more dominant. Specifically,...