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Fourth International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design
Analysis of IR-Drop Scaling with Implications for Deep Submicron P/G Network Designs
San Jose, California
March 24-March 26
ISBN: 0-7695-1881-8
Amir H. Ajami, University of Southern California
Kaustav Banerjee, University of California at Santa Barbara
Amit Mehrotra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Massoud Pedram, University of Southern California
This paper presents a detailed analysis of the power-supply voltage (IR) drop scaling in DSM technologies. For the first time, the effects of temperature, electromigration and interconnect technology scaling (including resistivity increase of Cu interconnects due to electron surface scattering and finite barrier thickness) are taken into consideration during this analysis. It is shown that the IR-drop effect in the power/ground (P/G) network increases rapidly with technology scaling, and using well-known counter measures such as wire-sizing and decoupling capacitor insertion with resource allocation schemes that are typically used in the present designs may not be sufficient to limit the voltage fluctuations over the power grid for future technologies. It is also shown that such voltage drops on power lines of switching devices in a clock network can introduce significant amount of skew which in turn degrades the signal integrity.
Citation:
Amir H. Ajami, Kaustav Banerjee, Amit Mehrotra, Massoud Pedram, "Analysis of IR-Drop Scaling with Implications for Deep Submicron P/G Network Designs," isqed, pp.35, Fourth International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, 2003
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