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ICCAD '92 1992 IEEE/ACM international conference proceedings on Computer-aided design
Noise in deep submicron digital design
Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Exclusive simulation of activity in digital networks
Communications of the ACM
High Speed VLSI Interconnections: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation
High Speed VLSI Interconnections: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation
Miller factor for gate-level coupling delay calculation
Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Testing CrossTalk Induced Delay Faults in Static CMOS Circuits Through Dynamic Timing Analysis
ITC '02 Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Test Conference
Test Generation for Crosstalk-Induced Delay in Integrated Circuits
ITC '99 Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Test Conference
DATE '03 Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 1
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Capacitive crosstalk induced signal integrity effects have been studied for over a decade. A typical victim net has multiple aggressors. In worst-case analysis of crosstalk effects, it is customary to assume that (i) all aggressors can switch at the same time and (ii) aggressors themselves are not subject to other crosstalk effects. Further refinements of the worst-case analysis consider (a) Boolean filtering of the aggressors to take logical relationship among them into account and (b) timing filtering to exclude aggressors that cannot switch in the same timing window where the victim node is switching. However, even further refinement is possible by relaxing supposition (ii) above that assumes that aggressors are not subject to noise themselves. In this paper, we present a simulation study that considers multiple crosstalk effects where the aggressors of one net can be victim themselves with signals switching in their neighborhood. The simulations are performed on an innovative compact model that permits circular reasoning in an event-driven, non-zero gate delay, and dynamic simulation framework. Results indicate that when crosstalk on aggressors is also considered while processing crosstalk on a victim, the impact is often mitigated substantially.