IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
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Efficient Partial Reluctance Extraction for Large-Scale Regular Power Grid Structures
Shan ZENGWenjian YUJin SHIXianlong HONGChung-Kuan CHENG
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2009 Volume E92.A Issue 6 Pages 1476-1484

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Inductive effect becomes important for on-chip global interconnects, like the power/ground (P/G) grid. Because of the locality property of partial reluctance, the inverse of partial inductance, the window-based partial reluctance extraction has been applied for large-scale interconnect structures. In this paper, an efficient method of partial reluctance extraction is proposed for large-scale regular P/G grid structures. With a block reuse technique, the proposed method makes full use of the structural regularity of the P/G grid. Numerical results demonstrate the proposed method is able to efficiently handle a P/G grid with up to one hundred thousands wire segments. It is several tens times faster than the window-based method, while generating accurate frequency-dependent partial reluctance and resistance.

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