SIGNAL INTEGRITY EFFECTS IN
CUSTOM IC AND ASIC DESIGNS
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Contents
FOREWORD
From the Early Days of CMOS to Today
L. H. Cooke
Signal Integrity: A Problem for Design and CAD Engineers
L. Scheffer
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Signal Integrity Effects in System-on-Chip Designs-A Designer's Perspective
L. Cooke, M. Goossens, P. Hoxey, T. Inoue, D. Overhauser, P. Saxena, and R. Singh (Original Paper)
PART 1 INTERCONNECT CROSSTALK
Thtorial
Harmony: Static Noise Analysis of Deep SubmicronDigital Integrated Circuits
K. L. Shepard, V. Narayanan, and R. Rose (IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design ofInteg rated
Circuits and Systems, August 1999)
FastCap: A Multipole Accelerated 3-D Capacitance Extraction Program
K. Nabors and J. White (IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and
Systems, November 1991)
Modeling, Analysis
Efficient Coupled Noise Estimation for On-Chip Interconnects
A. Devgan (Proceedings ofthe International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, November 1997)
Switching Window Computation for Static Timing Analysis in Presence of Crosstalk Noise
P. Chen, D. A. Kirkpatrick, and K. Keutzer (Proceedings ofthe International Conference on Computer
Aided Design, November 2000)
Digital Sensitivity: Predicting Signal Interaction using Functional Analysis
D. A. Kirkpatrick and A. L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (Proceedings of the International Conference on
Computer-Aided Design, November 1996)
Optimization
Crosstalk Reduction for VLSI
A. Vittal and M. Marek-Sadowska (IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design ofIntegrated Circuits
and Systems, March 1997)
Noise-aware Repeater Insertion and Wire Sizing For On-Chip Interconnect Hierarchical Moment-Matching
C. Chen and N. Menezes (Proceedings of the Design Automation Conference, June 1999)
Post Global Routing Crosstalk Synthesis
T. Xue, E. S. Kuh, and D. Wang (IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design ofIntegrated Circuits
and Systems, December 1997)
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Minimum Crosstalk Channel Routing
T. Gao and C. L. Liu (IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design ofIntegrated Circuits and Systems,
May 1996)
Reducing Cross-Coupling among Interconnect Wires in Deep-Submicron Datapath Design
J.-S. Yim and C.-M. Kyung (Proceedings ofthe Design Automation Conference, June 1999)
A Postprocessing Algorithm for Crosstalk-driven Wire Perturbation
P. Saxena and C. L. Liu (IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and
Systems, June 2000)
Design
Noise in Digital Dynamic CMOS Circuits
P. Larsson and C. Svensson (IEEE Journal ofSolid-State Circuits, June 1994)
Design of Dynamic Circuits with Enhanced Noise Tolerance
S. Bobba and I. N. Hajj (Proceedings of the ASIC/SOC Conference, September 1999)
Coupling-Driven Signal Encoding Scheme for Low-Power Interface Design
K.-W. Kim, K.-H. Baek, N. Shanbhag, C. L. Liu, and S. Kang (Proceedings of the International
Conference on Computer-Aided Design, November 2000)
RelatedTopic: Issues with EmergingProcessesand CircuitStyles
High Frequency Simulation and Characterization of Advanced Copper Interconnects
C. Cregut, G. Le Carval, J. Chilo (Proceedings of the International Conference on Interconnect Tech-
nology, May 1999)
Static Noise Analysis for Digital Integrated Circuits in Partially-Depleted Silicon-an-Insulator Technology
K. L. Shepard and D.-J. Kim (Proceedings of the Design Automation Conference, June 2000)
Synthesis of CMOS Domino Circuits for Charge Sharing Alleviation
C.-H. Cheng, S.-C. Chang, S.-D. Li, W.-B. Jone, and J.-S. Wang (Proceedings of the International
Conference on Computer-Aided Design, November 2000)
PART2 INDUCTANCE EFFECTS
Thtorial
On-Chip Wiring Design Challenges for Gigahertz Operation
A. Deutsch, P. W. Coteus, G. V. Kopcsay, H. H. Smith, C. W. Surovic, B. L. Krauter, D. C. Edelstein,
and P. J. Restle (Special Proceedings ofIEEE, June 2001)
IC Analyses Including Extracted Inductance Models
M. W. Beattie and L. T. Pileggi (Proceedings of the Design Automation Conference, June 1999)
Extraction
FASTHENRY: A Multipole-Accelerated 3-D Inductance Extraction Program
M. Kamon, M. J. Tsuk, and J. K. White (IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
September 1994)
Full-Chip, Three-Dimensional, Shapes-Based RLC Extraction
K. L. Shepard, D. Sitaram, and Y. Zheng (Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-
Aided Design, November 2000)
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Modeling, Analysis
On-Chip Inductance Modeling and Analysis
K. Gala, V.Zolotov, R. Panda, B. Young, J. Wang, and D. Blaauw (Proceedings ofthe Design Automation
Conference, June 2000)
How to Efficiently Capture On-Chip Inductance Effects: Introducing a New Circuit Element K
A. Devgan, H. Ji, and W. Dai (Proceedings ofthe International Conference on Computer-Aided Design,
November 2000)
Figures of Merit to Characterize the Importance of On-Chip Inductance
Y. I. Ismail, E. G. Friedman, and J. L. Neves (Proceedings ofthe Design Automation Conference, June
1998)
Design,Optimization
Layout Techniques for Minimizing On-Chip Interconnect Self Inductance
Y. Massoud, S. Majors, T. Bustami, and J. White (Proceedings of the Design Automation Conference,
June 1998)
A Twisted-Bundle Layout Structure for Minimizing Inductive Coupling Noise
G. Zhong, C.-K. Koh, and K. Roy (Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided
Design, November 2000)
PART 3 POWER GRID AND DISTRIBUTION NOISE
Thtorial
Full-Chip Verification of UDSM Designs
R. Saleh, D. Overhauser, and S. Taylor (Proceedings ofthe International Conference on Computer-Aided
Design, November 1998)
Power Supply Noise in Future IC's: A Crystal Ball Reading
P. Larsson (Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, May 1999)
Modeling, Analysis
A Floorplan-based Planning Methodology for Power and Clock Distribution in ASICs
J.-S. Yim, S.-O. Bae, and C.-M. Kyung (Proceedings ofthe Design Automation Conference, June 1999)
Power Supply Noise Analysis Methodology for Deep-Submicron VLSI Chip Design
H. H. Chen and D. D. Ling (Proceedings of the Design Automation Conference, June 1997)
Analysis of Performance Impact Caused by Power Supply Noise in Deep Submicron Devices
Y.-M. Jiang, K.-T. Cheng (Proceedings of the Design Automation Conference, June 1999)
Full-Chip Signal Interconnect Analysis for Electromigration Reliability
S. Rochel and N. S. Nagaraj (Proceedings ofthe First International Symposium on Quality Electronic
Design, March 2000)
Optimization
Power Dissipation Analysis and Optimization of Deep Submicron CMOS Digital Circuits
R. X. Gu and M. I. Elmasry (IEEE Journal ofSolid-State Circuits, May 1996)
Simulation and Optimization of the Power Distribution Network in VLSI Circuits
G. Bai, S. Bobba, and I. N. Hajj (Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided
Design, November 2000)
Design
Design Strategies and Decoupling Techniques for Reducing the Effects of Electrical Interference in Mixed
Mode IC's
M. Ingels and M. S. Steyaert (IEEE Journal ofSolid-State Circuits, July 1997)
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