PARAMETERIZED SPICE SUBCIRCUITS FOR MULTILEVEL INTERCONNECT MODELING AND SIMULATION

被引:13
作者
CHANG, KJ [1 ]
CHANG, NH [1 ]
OH, SY [1 ]
LEE, KY [1 ]
机构
[1] HEWLETT PACKARD CO,HEWLETT PACKARD LABS,PALO ALTO,CA 94304
来源
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II-ANALOG AND DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING | 1992年 / 39卷 / 11期
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10.1109/82.204126
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
This paper describes a parameterized interconnect model library generator that provides VLSI designers with a direct link between numerical method-based capacitance simulators and SPICE-like circuit simulators. As a result, interconnect parasitics are parameterized in a manner similar to the parameterization of transistors in SPICE. Therefore, the effort and time needed by circuit designers or EDA tools to prepare distributed multiline R, C SPICE decks for circuit simulations is drastically reduced.
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页码:779 / 789
页数:11
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