Pilot: a Fast Algorithm for Enhanced 3d Parasitic Capacitance Extraction Efficiency

Fast Inductance Extraction of Large VLSI Circuits

Accurate estimation of signal delay is critical to the design and verification of VLSI circuits. At very high frequencies, signal delay in circuits with small feature sizes is dominated by the parasitic inductance and capacitance of the interconnect. Inductance extraction involves the solution of large, dense, complex linear systems of equations by preconditioned iterative methods. Fast inducta...

Accurate capacitance and RC extraction software tool for pixel, sensor, and precision analog designs

This paper presents a new CAD tool – F3D – for accurate 3D capacitance and distributed RC model extraction for image sensor designs. F3D overcomes limitations of existing parasitic extraction tools and field solvers, and enables a predictive accurate capacitance extraction and distributed RC model generation, automated identification of all relevant capacitive coupling components, including lon...

TCAM Core Design in 3D IC for Low Matchline Capacitance and Low Power

Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) has been an emerging technology for fast packet forwarding, commonly used in longest prefix match routing. Large table size requirements and wider lookup table data widths have led to higher capacity TCAM designs. However, the fully parallel characteristic of TCAM makes large TCAM design more challenging and limits its capacity due to intensive power co...

An Exhaustive Method for Characterizing the Interconnect Capacitance Considering the Floating Dummy-Fills by Employing an Efficient Field Solving Algorithm

This paper presents an exhaustive method to characterize the interconnect capacitances with taking the floating dummy-tills into account. Results of the case study with typical floating dummy-fills show that the inter-layer capacitances are also an important factor in the electrical consideration for the dummy-fills. An efficient field solving algorithm is implemented into the 3D finite-differe...

Efficient Capacitance Extraction of 3d Structures Using Generalized Pre-corrected Fft Methods