Compact Physical Model for Power Supply Noise

The aggressive scaling of CMOS integrated circuits
makes the design of power distribution networks a
serious challenge. This is because the supply
current and clock frequency are increasing, which
increases the power supply noise. Excessive power
supply noise can lead to severe degradation of chip
performance and even logic failure. Therefore, power
supply noise modeling and power integrity validation
are of great significance in GSI systems and 3-D
systems. Compact physical models enable quick
recognition of the power supply noise without doing
dedicated simulations. In this book, accurate and
compact physical models for the power supply noise
are derived for power hungry blocks, hot spots, 3-D
chip stacks, and chip/package co-design. The impacts
of noise on transmission line performance are also
investigated using compact physical modeling
schemes. The models can help designers gain
sufficient physical insights into the complicated
power delivery system and tradeoff various important
chip and package design parameters during the early
stages of design. The models are compared with
commercial tools and display high accuracy.

Autorentext

Gang Huang received his BS and MS degrees in EE from Tsinghua University, China in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He obtained another MS and PhD degrees (advisor: Dr James Meindl) in ECE from Georgia Tech, US, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He worked as a graduate Co-op at IBM in 2007. Now, he is working in Intel as a design engineer.

Klappentext

The aggressive scaling of CMOS integrated circuits makes the design of power distribution networks a serious challenge. This is because the supply current and clock frequency are increasing, which increases the power supply noise. Excessive power supply noise can lead to severe degradation of chip performance and even logic failure. Therefore, power supply noise modeling and power integrity validation are of great significance in GSI systems and 3-D systems. Compact physical models enable quick recognition of the power supply noise without doing dedicated simulations. In this book, accurate and compact physical models for the power supply noise are derived for power hungry blocks, hot spots, 3-D chip stacks, and chip/package co-design. The impacts of noise on transmission line performance are also investigated using compact physical modeling schemes. The models can help designers gain sufficient physical insights into the complicated power delivery system and tradeoff various important chip and package design parameters during the early stages of design. The models are compared with commercial tools and display high accuracy.