This paper provides a high level survey of the increasing effects of on-chip inductance. These effects are classified into desirable and nondesirable effects. Among the undesirable effects of on-chip inductance are higher interconnect coupling noise and substrate coupling, challenges for accurate extraction, the required modifications of the infrastructure of CAD tools, and the inevitably slowe...

Figure 1-1 Transformer Equivalent Circuit Introduction Experienced SwitchMode Power Supply designers know that SMPS success or failure depends heavily on the proper design and implementation of the magnetic components. Parasitic elements inherent in high frequency transformers or inductors cause a variety of circuit problems including: high losses, high voltage spikes necessitating snubbers or ...

The formation of the national identity is determined by the process of comparing “yourself” with “the other”. The feeling of the national identity is fixing the differences “our – strangers”, “ours – not ours”. When the ethnic culture is formed there is an intensive process of self-reflection, self-identification, “the image of yourself” is made up in relation to the “images” of other people, c...

We present several new simple and accurate expressions for the DC inductance of square, hexagonal, octagonal, and circular spiral inductors. We evaluate the accuracy of our expressions, as well as several previously published inductance expressions, in two ways: by comparison with three-dimensional field solver predictions and by comparison with our own measurements, and also previously publish...

A distributed system is said to be self-stabilizing if it converges to a correct system state from any initial system state in finite number of steps. Such a self-stabilizing system can be regarded as a fault tolerant system against transient faults since by definition it autonomously returns to a correct system state, no matter how maliciously variables and buffers are rewritten. In this paper...

A self-stabilizing algorithm, regardless of the initial system state, converges in finite time to a set of states that satisfy a legitimacy predicate. The mutual exclusion problem is fundamental in distributed computing, since it allows processors competing to access a shared resource to be able to synchronize and get exclusive access to the resource (i.e. execute their critical section). It is...