RICE: Rapid interconnect circuit evaluator
DAC '91 Proceedings of the 28th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
RC interconnect synthesis—a moment fitting approach
ICCAD '94 Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
The Elmore delay as bound for RC trees with generalized input signals
DAC '95 Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
PRIMO: probability interpretation of moments for delay calculation
DAC '98 Proceedings of the 35th annual Design Automation Conference
h-gamma: an RC delay metric based on a gamma distribution approximation of the homogeneous response
Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Closed form expressions for extending step delay and slew metrics to ramp inputs
Proceedings of the 2003 international symposium on Physical design
Efficient Gate Delay Modeling for Large Interconnect Loads
MCMC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Multi-Chip Module Conference (MCMC '96)
An analytical delay model for RLC interconnects
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
RC delay metrics for performance optimization
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
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This paper presents a simple and fast delay metric RC-class interconnects under step and saturated ramp inputs. The proposed RC delay metric under step input, called MECM(Modified ECM), provides a reasonable accuracy without using circuit moments. The next RC delay metric under saturated ramp inputs, called FDM(Fast Delay Metric), can estimate delay times at an arbitrary node using a simple closed-form expression and is extended from MECM easily. As compared with similar techniques proposed in previous researches, it is shown that the FDM technique involves much lower computational complexity for a similar accuracy. As the number of circuit nodes increases, there will be a significant difference in estimation times of RC delay between the previous techniques based on two circuit moments and the FDM which do not depend on circuit moments.