The effects of inductance on repeater insertion in RLC trees is the focus of this paper. An algorithm is introduced to insert and size repeaters within an RLC tree to optimize a variety of possible cost functions such as minimizing the maximum path delay, the skew between branches, or a combination of area, power, and delay. The algorithm has a complexity proportional to the square of the numbe...

In this paper we introduce and characterize a novel circuit design for low power clock distribution for quantumdot cellular automata (QCA) systems. The characterization of the clocking circuitry includes an evaluation of: the coupling capacitances among the wires and with the ground plane; the dissipative effects of the wires and the substrate; the phase shift between neighboring wires; and the...

As very large scale integration (VLSI) circuit speed rapidly increases, the inductive effects of interconnect lines strongly impact the signal integrity of a circuit. Since these inductive effects make the signal integrity problems much more serious as well as intricate, they become one of the critical issues in today’s high-speed/high-density VLSI circuit design. In this paper, a generalized t...

In this paper we focus on a novel generic method to decrease the power dissipation of the large number of output buffers (hundreds to thousands) that drive the large set of pixels, capacitor loads. By simply adding one or more appropriate surface mount inductors to the driver IC, RLC resonant circuits can be periodically constructed to charge and discharge the pixels. When the RLC resonant circ...

In this paper we consider the problem of finding a smaller RLCM circuit that approximately replicates the behavior (up to a certain frequency) of a given RLCM circuit. Targeted at parasitic extractors for verification of VLSI designs, the proposed algorithm uses a branch merge, node elimination methodology, with the choice of nodes for elimination being guided by time-constant criteria. Reliabl...

— We use first-order perturbation theory to provide a local linear relation between the circuit parameters and the poles of an RLC network. The sensitivity matrix, which defines this relationship, is obtained from the systems eigenvectors and the derivative of its eigenvalues. In general, the sensitivity matrix is related to the equilibrium fluctuations of the system. In particular, it may be u...

A new method of obtaining physical information about a system of fme fenite powder, from the hysteresis experienced by a ferromagnetic core as it dissipates energy in an RLC circuit is presented. The models of the magnetization processes are classified in three categories: physical, phenomenological and mixed. Hodgdon developed a purely mathematical model that was tested on magnetization proces...

An analog VLSI circuit model of the vocal tract is described. The vocal tract is acoustically modeled as a series of uniform cross-section tubes concatenated end-to-end. Each section of tube is modeled as an RLC circuit whose element values are determined by its area and length with the current and voltage corresponding to volume velocity and pressure in the tube. An analog VLSI circuit is desc...