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Fast On-Chip Inductance Extraction of VLSI Including Angled Interconnects
Atsushi KUROKAWA Kotaro HACHIYA Takashi SATO Kazuya TOKUMASU Hiroo MASUDA
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Vol.E86-A
No.4
pp.841-845 Publication Date: 2003/04/01 Online ISSN:
DOI: Print ISSN: 0916-8508 Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section of Selected Papers from the 15th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa) Category: Keyword: inductance, parasitic extraction, VLSI interconnect, geometric mean distance, skin effect,
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Summary:
A formula-based approach for extracting the inductance of on-chip VLSI interconnections is presented. All of the formulae have been previously proposed and are well-known, but the degrees of accuracy they provide in this context have not previously been examined. The accuracy of the equations for a 0.1 µm technology node is evaluated through comparison of their results with those of 3-D field solvers. Comprehensive evaluation has proven that the maximum relative error of self- and mutual inductances as calculated by the formulae are less than 5% for parallel wires and less than 13% for angled wires, when wire width is limited to no more than 10 times the minimum. When applied to a realistic example with 43 wire segments, a program using the formula-based approach extracts values more than 60 times faster than a 3-D field solver.
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