Simple metrics for slew rate of RC circuits based on two circuit moments

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Simple metrics for slew rate of RC circuits based on two circuit moments

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Proceedings of the 40th annual Design Automation Conference table of contents

Anaheim, CA, USA

SESSION: Interconnect noise avoidance methodologies & slew rate prediction table of contents

Pages: 950 - 953

Year of Publication: 2003

ISBN:1-58113-688-9

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Kanak Agarwal	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Dennis Sylvester	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
David Blaauw	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

In this paper we introduce simple metrics for the slew rate of an RC circuit based on the first two circuit moments. We develop two new slew metrics, S2M (slew with 2 moments) and scaled S2M, that provide high accuracy with the advantage of simple closed form expressions. S2M is very accurate for middle and far end nodes but it does not perform as well for near end nodes. Scaled S2M is developed to improve upon S2M for near end nodes and is shown to be highly accurate for near as well as far end nodes. For a large set of nets from an industrial 0.18 μm microprocessor, S2M matches SPICE within 2% on average with 78% of the sinks having less than 1% error. For the same test cases, the average error for scaled S2M is less than 3% with 99.4% of the nodes showing less than 5% error.

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