| Title |
An Analytic Study on Estimating Delay Time in RC-class Interconnects Under Saturated Ramp Inputs |
| Keywords |
Interconnects ; delay metric ; timing ; ramp, fast analysis |
| Abstract |
This paper presents a simple and fast delay metric RC-class interconnects under saturated ramp inputs. The RC delay metric under saturated ramp inputs, called FDM(Fast Delay Metric), can estimate delay times at an arbitrary node using a simple closed-form expression and is extended from delay metric under step input easily As compared with similar techniques proposed in previous researches, it is shown that the FDM technique complexity for a similar accuracy. As the number of circuit nodes increases, there will be a significant difference in estimation times of RC delay between the previous techniques based on two circuit moments and the FDM which do not depend on circuit moments. |